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Sucre, Bolivia

4/19/2010

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Sucre, Bolivia
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Tarabuco, and the traditional Sunday market...
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La Plata, The White City, Bolivia's capital, all have been the names of Sucre...
Like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid here we are in the heart of South America the whitewashed town of Sucre, Bolivia, absolutely transfixed by being in the middle of a huge, huge, empty land of harsh, spectacular beauty, yet thriving in this beautiful city of 200,000.

As I am want to do these days, as the ubiquitous bells of the churches ring for the morning masses, I drift awake and wonder...where am I? About that same moment I realize just where I am, and can't help but give thanks for being so lucky as to be on such an adventure. This morning as I lazily laid there listening to the quiet I realized this new city we had picked to live in  was about as far away as you can get from anywhere. Sucre, despite being in a gorgeous city of over 100 chapels, a major University (founded in 1625 the second oldest in the Americas) hundreds or restaurants and all kinds of activities...we are surrounded by a thousand miles of empty.

We had no idea how empty until we headed out by taxi yesterday for the 65 mile trip to Tarabuco, an adobe market town, laid out in a small arroyo at about 10,000 feet. The pictures tell the story but this is definitely not Wal-mart although just two blocks from our place here there is a huge modern grocery store, and a cinema;)
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Miradora, the vistas from this lookout above Sucre are spectacular
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Our new home...
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A view in every direction...
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Empty good riding roads on the way to Tarabuco
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Local merchant in Tarabuco...
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8/21/2022 12:14:44 pm

Great post, thank you.

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3/6/2025 02:59:50 am

I love how you describe feeling both connected to this vibrant city while also being immersed in such vast emptiness.

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    At 49, Kent and Christine Zimmerman quit their great jobs and headed out into the world to explore. After seven years of adventures in three different continents they continue to love living abroad in an ever expanding list of wonderful places that you too would love...but may not have heard of yet.

    For the past five years they have shared their
    discoveries in a series of month-long programs that allow others to try fascinating and fulfilling lives abroad for a month at a time with the help of one-on-one language courses, beautiful apartments, and a caring network of local friends and supporters... Attracting nearly a thousand participants to date.

    This year they are dividing their time between Mendoza, Argentina, Sucre, Bolivia, Tallinn, Estonia, Bolzano, Italy and Crested Butte, Colorado.

    They are regular speakers and writers for International Living Magazine and other publications.

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