SUCRE

Sucre

Sucre is a lovely 170000inhabitant student town up at 2800m in the Andes. Here just impressions from the market and our activities.

Mercado central
... lots of pasta and herbs and fruits and everything you need!

On the third day here in Sucre we did a mountain bike tour to test our fitness at this altitude. We biked down a dirt road that merged into a dry river bed. Fus bike was the first that broke down, he managed to brake off the rear gear shift. Our guide (Frankie McGuyver) just cut the chain and went on with just one gear for the rest of the day.

After the dry river bed ended at a real river, Chris had a punctured tire.
We went on through the river, over rocks and under Eukalyptus trees until we reached a farm house where we rested, had ice cream and met the 80 years old tortuga!
We left the bikes there to hike for an hour to the 7 waterfalls. The water was a bit brown since it rained the night before, but we went for a jump and a swim anyways.

(Bolivians doing their laundry!)
The way back was a 45 min climb which was absolutely knackering, but we made it and cruised through Sucres rush hour traffic back to the starting place, a dutch run bar where we had a final and very refreshing beer.

Thumbs up, it was awesome. Our bums are ....bleeding!

Tomorrow, we will continue down south to Uyuni to the salt planes ....will come soon!