La Paz / Cochabamba / Sucre

24 July - La Paz

After the crazy ride back to La Paz (which part of was on the ¨world´s most dangerous road¨), I guess I didn´t feel like doing much. I think I was getting tired of travelling and the cities in South America. I didn´t do much there except buy some socks and underwear. I keep losing some whenever I get laundry done. La Paz was nice though. It had the feeling of an old city. They also was a parade for something. I think there´s always a parade in South America. We had some good food there and just relaxed really. I was tired of going to museums and churches. I took a picture of a church but didn´t go inside. And I also took a picture of a stand in the witches market (Mercado de las Brujas). They sell things like llama fetuses and dried frogs for rituals.



25-26 July - Cochabamba

After La Paz, Kim headed to Sucre to start her volunteer project, but I went to Cochabamba for a few days before going to Sucre. It was a cute little city. It seemed a little more modern that La Paz. It had cute shops and nice restaurants. But I was still in no mood to go to a museum, church, or market. I just chilled and caught up on my blog. Plus, it was Sunday and everything was closed. I just took a picture of the main plaza. They also had buses there that looked like the jeepneys in the Phlippines. I download a pic to show you.


27-29 July - Sucre

Sucre was once the capital of Bolivia. Now La Paz is the officially the capital but Sucre is the judicial capital of Bolivia where the Supreme Court is. It was a really nice city with white colonial style buildings everywhere. But, I was still in no mood for museums or anything. I was beginning to think I might be too old to be travelling for so long.

Anyway, I decided to do a cheesy tour to Parque Cretacico to see dinosaur footprints. They take you in a cheesy truck with dinosaurs on it to this park with life size statues of dinosaurs. Then from very far away you can see the footprints, but you almost needed binoculars. It was so far. I thought maybe you can see them up close, but no. It was the cheesiest thing ever. Well at least it was something different but I probably should have just done some rock climbing.

I met up with Kim a few times in Sucre. She had broken out in hives from the tick bite she got in the jungle. Yikes! I went with her to find a dermatologist which was a whole day of goose chasing. We finally found one and got the right medicine she needed. She had an apartment in Sucre so we cooked dinner twice. I really missed cooking since I´ve been travelling. We made mac n cheese one night, and papas rellenas the second night. Yum. I left Sucre and had to say goodbye to Kim and was back to being a solo traveller, which was good and bad.