No Fixed Plans

We arrived to our hotel in Sucre at around 8am. There was 11 in our group and our ceo had told us that there’d be one single room for boys and one for girls and that she wouldn’t be deciding who got it and we could decide amongst ourselves who got it and if we wanted to swap it around. Due to this, I’ve ended up with the single room, seemingly for the next 2 weeks. 

We all settled into our rooms, changed and headed off to breakfast together. 

Here, most were excited to see hashbrowns on the menu for the first time in over 5 weeks. We also learned from the one Dutch woman that hashbrowns aren’t really a thing in the Netherlands as she didn’t know what it was or that they’re normally smaller than what the cafe gave us (they were the size of a small plate). 

After breakfast we did an orientation walk, where we all got high-fives from the zebras helping people to cross the road. We headed to the local market, tried some local fruits and ended the tour back at the hotel for us to go our seperate ways. 

I stayed in the hotel for a bit before going up to the local cathaderal, messaging one of the guys in the group who I knew was still at the hotel before leaving (though he was asleep). 

He woke up right as I was headed back in the hotels direction (prepared to go somewhere else) and we ended up meeting some of the rest of the group at the local park. 

We were with them for about 20 minutes walking around before they decided they needed to rest before dinner. The guy I had walked over with wanted to go up to the cathedral and since I didn’t want to go back to the hotel yet I went with him. 

We got back to the hotel around 4:45, giving us about an hour before we were meeting the rest of the group at a local rooftop bar/restaurant to watch the sunset. 

I had went earlier with the two girls who joined in La Paz and we ended up getting lost a few times before finally finding it (the restaurant was atop a hotel). 

Due to high prices we went to a local pizzeria for dinner that was a recommendation from a couple from the first leg of our tour, who were now doing the same tour as us but starting two days earlier. 

After which, a few went to do a tango class (they told us the place wasn’t actually doing tango when they got there but rather playing cards) while the rest of us went to bed. 

The next morning the 4 boys and two of the girls had gone to the gym, while the rest of us went for coffee and breakfast instead.

We all made sure we were ready to leave the hotel at 11:45 though as 9 out of 11 of us were catching a Dino bus to go to the Dino museum. 

We paid the 10bolivianos and all headed up to the rooftop. One of the guys was a lot more excited than everyone else, and in turn kept singing the tune to Jurassic world but replacing the hums with rawrs and some of the rest of us kept joining in. This made one of the three people not in our group turn around and yell at him, however not for the reason we initially thought. She was speaking Spanish she we all just assumed she was telling us (however it was just directed at the one guy starting it) to stop being annoying, however we ended up realising that she was mad because we were speaking in English and not Spanish (her last sentence was “In Bolivia España). The guy didn’t care much, just annoyed because rawr is just talking like a dinosaur, not necessarily a language. 

No one, however, let her put a damper on their mood and (thankfully) didn’t see her again until the bus ride back. 

We all went in, saw all the dinosaur statues and had a free guided tour through the park where we finished at the gift shop and two of the guys bought Dino shirts. 

We all had lunch, went back to look through the museums, took photos in the eggs and played in the park (clearly designed for little kids) while waiting for the bus back. 

After getting off, two of the guys split off while the rest of us went inside the grocery store, three of us to just to get ice creams. While we were waiting for everyone, one of the guys got approached by a child on the street asking for him to buy him ice cream, which he chose to buy her two. 

We all then went back to the hotel and prepared for a 5 course traditional style meal we signed up for. 

We had a meeting with our ceo about activities to do in upcoming cities before leaving at 5:30. 

Here, went got to try 3 different types of traditional alcohol before making a traditional Bolivian drink with our choice of liquor (half of a lime juice, 2 ounces of the liquor, and topped with ginger ale). 

We then got taken into the kitchen where we got shown a demonstration of how they make their traditional sauces and got shown all of the ingredients that were going to be used for dinner. 

We then got to watch our first course get prepared. The first course was a marinated beef and mushrooms that were engulfed in flames and then the mushrooms and beef got mixed in bowls (mine however was just the mushrooms and a few had bowls with just the meat) that already had salad in it. We also had a side of peanut sauce in the bowl to go with it. 

Upon sitting down at the table we all had a glass of water and got to have a local traditional juice. 

The next course that was brought out to us was a peanut soup. 

The third was fish with locally grown potatoes and a peanut looking sauce. 

At this point there were local bottles of wine brought out. 

Then the next course was pasta with sweet curry like sauce and chicken (however mine was tofu)

And then for dessert it was vanilla ice cream with a local crushed plant (almost like cocoa) over the top. 

The whole night we had a local tour guide eating with us, translating, and giving us extra information about sucre. It was later revealed that he was not hired through G like we initially thought, but rather the people running this activity were his parents. 

I had been sitting next to him the whole night and he told me that if I ever came back to Sucre to make sure I joined a rafting activity and was showing me videos from the place he worked. 

This concluded the evening where we took taxis back to the hotel and went promptly to bed. 

The next morning we had all separated for breakfast and did our own thing as we all had to make sure we were checked out of the hotel by 11am. 

After checkout time, we all met at the coffee place we had been at the morning prior. 

After the coffees, most of the group wanted to go up to the cathedral but three of us split off (all of us had gone up the day prior). We wandered the main streets a bit and ended up finding a few claw machines, the guy being obsessed with winning of the toys in particular and me and the other girl giving him the coins to keep playing. 

We then went to the streets closer to our hotel, initially looking for one that sold warm clothing but getting distracted by an ice cream shop and promptly giving up after getting some and went back to the hotel. 

While we were in the ice cream shop however, the child from the day before recognised the guy and came up to us to ask him to buy her ice cream again, with this time him saying no. 

After finishing the ice creams at the hotel, we went back out to look for a shop and immediately found one. After the others all buying something we had to head back to the hotel for our bus to Potosí.