Sucre - White city and beautiful waterfalls

Sucre is probably the quietest and most serene capital city we have been to on our journey so far. The houses are white and built in colonial style. We feel comfortable here from the very beginning. Our hostel, an old villa with a beautiful garden and a great rooftop terrace, adds to the charm of this city. Here, we can finally relax and plan our next steps. Planning ahead is necessary for Chile (which is unusual for South America). But there's no other way. After a lot of back and forth and thanks to the incredibly bad internet in the hostel, we manage to book the famous O-Track in Torres del Paine National Park - our main stop in Patagonia. We also take care of other office work after a few days. In the meantime, we run into some old friends. Our Irish friends Terry and Marta. We spend an evening exploring the pubs and bars of the city together before going our separate ways again. We also meet an old acquaintance from Cusco again. The Dutch girl Coree. Together with her, we visit the waterfalls just outside the city. A wonderful paradise for a pleasant hike, followed by some climbing and finally a refreshing swim in one of the seven waterfalls. A beautiful day that rounds off our stay in Sucre. In the hostel, we also meet two other German travelers (running joke) who share our room. Two 18-year-old full-blooded Cuxhavener [running inside joke], Irini and David, who are traveling through South America together after finishing high school - and in a really adventurous way. We have great respect for their action! We believe not everyone would do that at such a young age! We spend fun evenings with them, with bread and wine, or rather pasta and wine, and even more wine, but as long as we have wine, that's the main thing. ;) One evening, we even start a small bar and karaoke tour through the city, which doesn't end until dawn. What a blast that was! On this evening, we decide to go together to the Salar de Uyuni. The famous salt flats of Bolivia. That's going to be something! But before that, our paths separate for two days, as Marius and I want to go on a hiking trip to Takatukaland [I just couldn't remember the name ;)] aka Tupiza. So on Friday morning, we took a bus to Potosi, a famous mining town in Bolivia, from where we were supposed to go to Tupiza, as there are supposedly buses from Potosi to Takatukaland every hour. Well... that was the plan! Unfortunately, it didn't work out! In Potosi itself, the buses to Tupiza only run late in the evening, and we would arrive in the destination city in the middle of the night. Arriving at 3 a.m. and going hiking at 7 a.m.? That didn't make sense to us, so we spontaneously decided to continue directly to Uyuni. So we changed the bus station and continued to Uyuni. On the way there, we had a flat tire in the middle of nowhere, but it was professionally changed within 15 to 20 minutes and we could continue our journey. In the evening, we finally arrived in Uyuni after a long day in uncomfortable buses. Exhausted from the day, we quickly found a hostel, as the next day we would start planning our tour of the salt flats. On Sunday morning, Irini and David were supposed to arrive to start the tour with us on Monday. You will hear more about this adventure soon.

Until then,

Yours Marius and Max