Trotting around Tupiza & Sunny Sucre

With no sign of electricity returning to Uyuni, we hopped on a jeep and made our way south to Tupiza...the setting for Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid...and boy was it! It truly was the backdrop for all the Western movies I painfully sat through as a child...it was breathtaking! We spent the first day wandering this little town, eating and drinking all around us. Enjoying just how cheap this country is! We didn't waste much time booking a day of horseback riding and spent a glorious day in the sunshine, trotting through canyons, past cacti and over streams (where I nearly fell off!). We had a blast. With sore bums, we enjoyed another few days in Tupiza...drinking ridiculously cheap fresh orange juice every morning and eating deep fried jalapenos stuffed with cheese (that blowed our heads off...yummmm!). Then we hopped on our first real Bolivian bus experience overnight to Sucre. And what an experience it was. 4 people to a seat, minus temperatures and squating for a pee with 20 other Bolivian women against a wall at 3am. Beautiful stuff and not one to be forgotten quickly! But it was worth it for beautiful beautiful Sucre. Sucre was like no other place in Bolivia we'd seen (or wouldn't be either). Beautiful plazas, amazing food and endless white washed buildings. Our first day there was spent biking, hiking and "boating" (or so we were told...plain and simply, it was a four foot dinghy!) in the hills and canyons around Sucre. Speeding down the worst roads we'd ever seen at ridiculous speeds...it definitely was preparation for death road! This was also our first experience of proper heat in many many months...we were happy! The rest of our days in Sucre were spent eating many many giant fruit salads, drinking many many cold beers, catching up with old friends and strolling around the beautiful streets. During this time we also decided to give ourselves one luxurious treat on our year of travelling. And that treat was a flight to La Paz...and what a treat it was! The best £40 we've ever spent.
(pic 1: Mitch on his horse in Tupiza; pic 2: Mitch & I having a rest on top of the steeple in a church in Sucre)