Sucre - a brief respite
Bus services in Bolivia are VERY different from Argentina and Chile. Our bus from Uyuni was an ancient hunk of junk that spewed all sorts of noxious gases into the air. That combined with horrendous, pot-holed dirt roads the entire way provided a very jolting 9 hour ride. We did a brief stopover in the town of Potosi , once the richest city in the world (1500s and 1600s) due to it´s rich silver deposits in Cerro Rico. This town is a tourist destination for people who want to visit the mines where people still work in medieval conditions. It was advised that anybody with asthma or suffering from claustrophobia should not make the visit. As some of our group were apprehensive about this, we decided to give it a skip and carry on to Sucre. And here is the usual wikipedia spiel: "Sucre (population 247,300 in 2006) is the constitutional capital of Bolivia , seat of the Supreme Court ( Corte Suprema de Justicia ). Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an...