SUCRE

12TH - 16TH APRIL

When we finally arrived back in La Paz we got a taxi back to our hostel, dumped our bags and with our fingers crossed went to the bus station to see if there were any tickets left for the overnight bus to Sucre. We had been told that we would have no trouble getting a bus as there were plenty, but only one of them was the posh “cama” bus with big comfy seats and loads of room. Thankfully our luck was in and we got two of the last seats available on the cama bus.

We had a few hours to kill, so we went on the internet and found a hostel in Sucre, and then headed back to the gringo café we’d visited on our first time here for another round of stuffed pita breads and chips!! Finally it was time to head to the bus station and await the arrival of our bus. We weren’t holding out too much hope for this bus, in Argentina when they say luxury cama bus they mean it,
but we’d found that in Chile, and especially Peru, the descriptions and photos of the bus didn’t match the reality too well!! We were pleasantly surprised then when it pulled into the bus station and was every bit as plush as we could have hoped for. Big wide comfy seats, blankets and pillows ensured that we got a great night’s sleep and arrived early the next morning in Sucre feeling refreshed and ready for a new day!!

We took a taxi to our chosen hostel and were shown to our room. The room wasn’t too bad, but the bathrooms were very grungy and the kitchen wasn’t much better. What was really annoying was that it was loads more expensive for an ensuite room, so we’d gone for a shared bathroom. In fact though the room had an ensuite, they had just locked the door as we hadn’t paid for it!! We thought that this was really quite petty and as we didn’t really like the vibe of the