Mirador over Sucre

I found a nice gym right in the plaza, on the top of a center. It’s pretty cheap, 75 Bolivianos for a month, including entry fee. Compared to Denmark, it is really old equipment, mostly just weights and bad/broken old machines. But it got most of what I need, and it is nice to train with weights again. Otherwise I’m mostly just doing pushups and exercises for the stomach in the hostels when I’m travelling around. The gym has the most amazing view over the Plaza and the city, and walking up all the stairs is a nice warm-up exercise…

This weekend I went out eating at Los Balcones, a restaurant at the Plaza, with a lot of the other students, because it was the last day in Sucre for a guy at the school. Afterwards we went to Locots as usually, where they have happy hour from 22 to 23.
Rest of the weekend, I spent some time walking around town, and taking some pictures. The Mirador was really beautiful in the nice weather; it gives a really good view of Sucre. I also love spending time in the plazas and at the big market.

The view of a tomato!

On the way to the Salar, we stopped at so many lagoons, that they don’t feel so amazing at the end. I almost got sick of seeing flamingos and Llama’s, because they were everywhere. The first time I took a lot of pictures of the flamingos, but the next 5-6 times didn’t amaze me that much.
The Salar de Uyuni was amazing though! Almost a week before I went to Salar de Atacama outside of San Pedro – and compared to Salar de Uyuni it was nothing! The salar was so big and amazing! Everywhere you looked, it was just this white salt plain. Even more amazing was the Island of Cactus, in the middle of this big salt plain. As of out of nowhere, this great hill rises with lots and lots of cactuses, like a Island in the middle of the sea. There where cactuses over 1200 years old, growing about one centimeter a year. While this of course was a very touristic attraction, I was amazed that there weren’t more people there. Most of the time, you would find yourself wandering alone in all the cactuses, in the short hour we had there.

Cactus from Salar de Uyuni

Chilling in Uyuni

We arrived to Uyuni Wednesday afternoon, and together with the Spanish guy from our car, I bought a ticket with the bus, going to Sucre with a change of bus in Potosí. Our bus left around 7 in the evening, so we had some hours to wait in Uyuni. We used the time drinking some beers with a couple of Swiss guys, who had also done the 3-day trip. In the Plaza we met some musical people, so the hours quickly passed as we were playing music and singing. More and more people came, and right before we left, there was about 12 people sitting in this place, enjoying the time, chatting and drinking wine and beer. I was so amazed of how easy it is to talk to people, and just enjoy the company of each other. Compared to Denmark where everybody is in their own “tiny square”, where nobody else is allowed…
I also met a Columbian girl there, who lives in Bogota. As soon as she heard I was going to Columbia, she offered me to show me around town when I get there, so hopefully I’m going to meet up with her and her friends in Bogota when I get there.

I started studying Spanish at Acadamia Latinoamaricana de Español here in Sucre this Monday, and already met a lot of fellow students – even a Danish girl! Its quite rare to meet other Danish people here in South America, so its nice with a fellow traveler. It was her birthday Tuesday, so we went out drinking with a lot of the students. It was really nice, even though there weren’t many people drinking on a Tuesday. Expect some crazy pictures on facebook!

I’m really looking forward to a nice month here in Sucre, and I’m already learning a lot of Spanish.
Hasta luego chicos!