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Sucre - Cemetery

Oct 23, 2009 Fri
Morning
05:00Sucre - Cemetery
09:17Breakfast at Hostal Libertad
09:46Wandering
10:02 santa teresa
10:03ARTE Indigena
The local textile museum. It has English translation.
10:05 sucre courtyard
11:50 skull with braids
a bowman in the Caravan during the Tiwanacu Period
Afternoon
12:05Lunch in New Hong Kong Restaurant
Ordered fried vegetable noodle for 20B
Owner is from Macau
The whole city has 5 Chinese (the owner couple count as 2)
It was a family business inherited from his ancestor
12:45Wandering
12:52 san lorenzo
13:07 recoleta
13:09 recoleta church
13:11 slackers
13:11 perspective recoleta
13:12 daniela and bunno
13:18 recoleta
14:07Feeling
Very tired, very sleepy, should have stayed close to hotel
14:41 football buddies
14:49Recoleta
Guided tour in Spanish
Price: 10B
There was a room where Blanco was killed (he had been president for 4 days)
14:52 museum recoleta
14:52 apple trees
14:53 ancient tree
15:05 spot of president blanco assassination
15:06 recoleta church
15:11 museo tanga tanga
Don't know when if ever it will open
15:42Human Museum
Annex to the University
Price: 10B
No photograph allowed inside.
15:58Museo Gutierrez Valenzuela
A museum from an old aristocrat
Price: 8B
16:04 silverware
From Potosi
16:04 dancing dutch couples
From Potosi
16:05 kissing angels
16:05 dancing girls
16:05 young european lady
16:05 pottery
16:06 bronze woman
16:07 bronze colonel
16:07 orange vase
16:07 english cups
16:08 antique vase
16:08 apollo vase
16:08 three wolves of rome
16:09 ballad dancer
16:09 goddess of victory
16:19Iglesia de la merced
Price: 10B
16:24 death of mary
16:25 saints of iglesia de la merced
16:25 christ suffering
16:29 inside iglesia de la merced
16:30 slaughering jews
16:31 bronze organ
16:35 sucre clock tower
16:36 sucre
16:37 sucre belfry
16:37 bronze belfry
16:38 convento de san felipe neri
16:38 crossing
16:38 grocer and daughter
16:39 church roof
16:40 iglesia de la merced roof
16:44 sucre twin hills
16:44 clock tower from iglesia de la merced
16:45 iglesia de la merced church face
17:05Sucre Municipal Cemetery
17:07 zombie dinosaur
17:11 dinosaur phone
17:14 82
17:14 muncipal cemetry
17:20 creamation drawers
Orphans, his children are adopted because his wife can't give birth.
He brought the 1st plane and 1st car in South America
He traveled to Rome. He was the owner of a silver mine in Potosi.
17:21 francisco argandona
Orphans, his children are adopted because his wife can't give birth.
He brought the 1st plane and 1st car in South America
He traveled to Rome. He was the owner of a silver mine in Potosi.
17:25 his adopted orphan
17:28 gral dn manuel ascencio padilla
A soldier in the Independent war
His wife was famous (saw her big painting in the Liberty House).
17:32 tomb of war hero
17:33 el presente y la posteridad
Fought in pacific war
17:36 tomb with forgotten name
17:37 traitor tomb
He was a president betrayed the guy from the last tomb.
17:39 president in 1926
He built the football stadium. He brought weapons from American to fight in Chaco war. He died in a plane accident?
17:40President in 1926
He built the football stadium. He brought weapons from American to fight in Chaco war. He died in a plane accident?
17:40 president in 1926
1924 - he drunk wine to have better voice.
17:41 first journals
1924 - he drunk wine to have better voice.
17:46 president
He was a mine owner. He built his tomb like a mine. The statue was from Paris. He built mental hospital because his wife went loony. He got 2 wives.
17:54 death angel of a president
1840 named president 1876 to 1879
He was the best president but he lost the pacific war, betrayed by the other guy in the previous tomb. He was exiled to France. He was assassinated by the Bolivian soldiers in Uyuni. His famous quote: Death is nothing, but forgotten is worse. He was buried in Uyuni. Because of his assassination, Chile refused to pay tax.
17:54 death angel of a president
1840 named president 1876 to 1879
He was the best president but he lost the pacific war, betrayed by the other guy in the previous tomb. He was exiled to France. He was assassinated by the Bolivian soldiers in Uyuni. His famous quote: Death is nothing, but forgotten is worse. He was buried in Uyuni. Because of his assassination, Chile refused to pay tax.
Night
18:01Sucre first defense
The students protested moving the capital in 1899
18:01 death angel of a president
18:03 jewish cemetery
18:04 poor man grave
18:04 civil unrest to defend sucre
In 2007, Evo tried to move the supreme court, supported by Venezuela, the students in Sucre blocked the move.
18:15Dinner time
18:24 san francisco church
18:25 san francisco church
18:29 san francisco church
From Hostal Libertad
19:05Dinner at El Germin
Ordered a Falafel for 22B
Soup for 12b
Drinks....
I suspect dinner may take longer
19:36 falafel in el germin
Price: 22B
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