Sucre

A wonderful surprise from our mostly unpleasant introduction to Bolivia, Sucre is a beautiful colonial city full of white walls and tiled roofs, and probably the nicest cities we’ve visited so far. The city has a huge student population and is brimming with young people. There’s a beautiful central plaza surrounded by some outstanding architecture and restaurants that serves as the main focal point of the city. Probably the most amazing aspect of sucre was the cemetery…very old with incredible gardens and a maze ofgraves…we liked it so much we visited twice. We also visited the local indigenous museum which was pretty outstanding….including some of the most incredible textiles ive ever seen…painstakingly demonstrated on site by some indigenous women thread by thread. There was also a budget video on display depicting various celebrations and rituals from the neighboring tribal groups…totally amazing…Bolivia is wonderfully diverse in regards to its colorful rural communities…most of which are completely inaccessible to travelers without their own mode of transportation however…which was quite frustrating. We did manage to visit one rural community called tarabuco though for their weekend market. It was awesome to go to the museum and learn about all these different indigenous groups then go to the market and see them in full effect…dressed completely traditionally and looking so rad…worth the trip, but unfortunately swarmed with tourists.