Sucre, aka Charcas aka La Plata aka Chuquisaca. This town with four names is situated at 2700m altitude giving it an average temperature of 20C by day and 8C by night. It's the constitutional capital of Bolivia, the centre of South America freedom movement.
Sucre was apparently the best place to learn Spanish. The quality of teachers are great, the tuition is affordable and living cost is as low as it could be. I stayed here for two weeks to learn Spanish.
I've come to love this place. The friendly town where you bump into friends walking around town. The central meeting place- plaza 25 de mayo- where everyone would hang around day and night and converse with strangers sitting at the next bench. The yummy lunch spots providing cheap three course menus. Siestas that would zombify the entire town. The public markets that require extensive amount of haggling. The fruit stall square producing mouth watering fruit cups. The freestyle Spanish teacher. The infamous universities, firsts of its kind in South America. The park with mini Eiffel tower and little ponds with boats. The two popular pubs where locals and travellers mingle. The board game nights. The two for one happy drinking hours. The hills we climb to watch the sunset. The yummy empanadas and saltanias. The white churches beaming on sunny days. The museum of Bolivian history. The hilarious third world police department. The pretty white washed Spanish buildings. The street by day. And the streets at night. The libraries, cathedrals, cinemas, bakeries, convenient shops, launderias, hostels and etc...
I love this place, I love this place.
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| The Santa Clara convent bells, the massive convent with nuns making yummy emapanadas |
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| lunch time sunshine |
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| more cathedrals! |
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| plaza 25 de mayo, everything evolves around here |
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