9 October 2007

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: The beggars that regularly hang around the tourist areas adjacent to the plaza came to the fiesta, too.

Sucre Bolivia: This particular graffiti caught my attention as it appeared on the front wall of the national agricultural court of justice.

Sucre Bolivia: Front of the Departmental government building on the SW side of the central plaza.

Sucre Bolivia: A painter demonstrates why the White City is so called.

Sucre Bolivia: Sunday mass is dedicated to the Virgin Guadalupe following a week of parades and celebrations.

Sucre Bolivia: Plaque advertising the Parque Cretacico on the wall of a building across the street from the central plaza.

Sucre Bolivia: Another unusual telephone booth.

Sucre Bolivia: Typical street on the hills above the center of the city.

Sucre Bolivia: Street sign for the typical street on the hills above the center of the city.

Sucre Bolivia: View of the center of the city from the typical street on the hills above the center of the city.

Sucre Bolivia: View of the center of the city from the typical street on the hills above the center of the city.

Sucre Bolivia: Monument in a small park near the bus station honoring women heroes!

Sucre Bolivia: Monument in a small park near the bus station honoring women heroes!

Sucre Bolivia: Plaque on the base of the monument in a small park near the bus station honoring women heroes!

Sucre Bolivia: Monument in a small park near the bus station honoring women heroes!

Sucre Bolivia: Stranded by the one day transportation strike on 9 October that closed all highways around Sucre I returned to the city and stayed in this hotel for the night. One of the two patio gardens in the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Stranded by the one day transportation strike on 9 October that closed all highways around Sucre I returned to the city and stayed in this hotel for the night. One of the two patio gardens in the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Stranded by the one day transportation strike on 9 October that closed all highways around Sucre I returned to the city and stayed in this hotel for the night. One of the two patio gardens in the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Stranded by the one day transportation strike on 9 October that closed all highways around Sucre I returned to the city and stayed in this hotel for the night. One of the two patio gardens in the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Ugly thorn buses used as highway obstacles. Bus ride from Potosi to Sucre stopped abruptly when it ran into another highway blockade; this time twenty miles to our destination and planned to last until tomorrow. A five kilometer stretch of road was closed with obstacles like this.

Sucre Bolivia: At the other end of the blocked section of road I came upon this peaceful gathering of protestors. Nearby police did not interfere.

Sucre Bolivia: At the other end of the blocked section of road I I found the traffic backed up in the other direction. Another kilometer after that several taxis waited for desperate passengers willing to pay 25 Bolivianos for a ride into the city some 15 Kilometers further on. I paid.

Sucre Bolivia October 3, 2007
Photos taken during the early part of October 2007 while in the Administrative Capital city of Sucre, Bolivia. - 90 photos

Sucre Bolivia: This is the capital so teachers bring their classes here in droves. This group's teacher saw me taking pictures and alerted her students to be friendly.

Sucre Bolivia: One of two bronze lion sculptures guarding the main monument in the park-like Plaza 25 de Mayo across the street from my hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Interesting seed pods like this litter the ground under one of the central plaza trees.

Sucre Bolivia: Some of the landscape sculpturing in the park-like Plaza 25 de Mayo across the street from my hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Scissor grinder at work below the second story Plaza Restaurant next to my hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Entrance to the Cementerio.

Sucre Bolivia: The walls around the Cementerio are covered with niches like these.

Sucre Bolivia: The walls around the Cementerio are covered with niches like these.

Sucre Bolivia: The walls around the Cementerio are covered with niches like these.

Sucre Bolivia: The walls around the Cementerio are covered with niches with more elaborate monuments like this scattered around the grounds.

Sucre Bolivia: AeroSur airline so badly messed up my connections to Sucre I wanted this photo to remind me of the fiasco. To get to Sucre from Cochabamba they routed me back through Santa Cruz. The connecting flight was not listed on the departure board and AeroSur told me the flight left from the small domestic airport some twenty miles to the south. That turned out to be wrong, but something I only discovered after making the round trip goose chase.

Sucre Bolivia: View of the center of the city from the typical street on the hills above the center of the city.

Sucre Bolivia: Typical street on the hills above the center of the city.

Sucre Bolivia: Truck and bus drivers stage a one day transportation strike protesting poor quality highway construction of the road connecting Potosi to Argentina.

Sucre Bolivia: Truck and bus drivers stage a one day transportation strike protesting poor quality highway construction of the road connecting Potosi to Argentina.

Sucre Bolivia: Truck and bus drivers stage a one day transportation strike protesting poor quality highway construction of the road connecting Potosi to Argentina.

Sucre Bolivia: Truck and bus drivers stage a one day transportation strike protesting poor quality highway construction of the road connecting Potosi to Argentina.

Sucre Bolivia: View of the center of the city from the hill to the east of the city.

Sucre Bolivia: View of the center of the city from the hill to the east of the city.

Sucre Bolivia: View from the window table of my favorite cafe across from the plaza. This little kid is one of the beggars that hangs around the area with his grandmother. He and others frequently watched diners... this time me.

Sucre Bolivia: I stopped in a clothing store to buy a replacement belt and struck up a conversation with this young lady who was studying English.

Sucre Bolivia: Close up of some of the striking planting used in the landscape sculptures.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: One of the regular beggars that hangs around the upscale establishments around the plaza. Today she is working the parade watchers... and participants.

Sucre Bolivia: Another of the main monuments in the park-like Plaza 25 de Mayo across the street from my hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Main monument in the central plaza erected in honor of Sucre, the man.

Sucre Bolivia: Plaque under the main monument in the central plaza erected in honor of Sucre, the man.

Sucre Bolivia: Scissor grinder at work below the second story Plaza Restaurant next to my hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Some of the landscape sculpturing in the Parque Simon Bolivar near where the now defunct train station used to be.

Sucre Bolivia: Monument honoring Bolivar in the Parque Simon Bolivar near where the now defunct train station used to be.

Sucre Bolivia: This seems to be the headquarters for the organization promoting the unification of the national government in Sucre.

Sucre Bolivia: Travel agency list of services.

Sucre Bolivia: Truck and bus drivers stage a one day transportation strike protesting poor quality highway construction of the road connecting Potosi to Argentina.

Sucre Bolivia: Truck and bus drivers stage a one day transportation strike protesting poor quality highway construction of the road connecting Potosi to Argentina.

Sucre Bolivia: Stranded by the one day transportation strike on 9 October that closed all highways around Sucre I returned to the city and stayed in this hotel for the night.

Sucre Bolivia: Stranded by the one day transportation strike on 9 October that closed all highways around Sucre I returned to the city and stayed in this hotel for the night. This is the obscure entrance; the first door on the left.

Sucre Bolivia: Stranded by the one day transportation strike on 9 October that closed all highways around Sucre I returned to the city and stayed in this hotel for the night. Decoration hanging over the reception desk.

Sucre Bolivia: Stranded by the one day transportation strike on 9 October that closed all highways around Sucre I returned to the city and stayed in this hotel for the night. The neo classical furnished lobby of the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Bus ride from Potosi to Sucre stopped abruptly when it ran into another highway blockade; this time twenty miles to our destination and planned to last until tomorrow. A five kilometer stretch of road was closed with obstacles.

Sucre Bolivia: Bus ride from Potosi to Sucre stopped abruptly when it ran into another highway blockade; this time twenty miles to our destination and planned to last until tomorrow. A five kilometer stretch of road was closed with obstacles. This is the bus that abandoned me.

Sucre Bolivia: Ugly thorn buses used as highway obstacles are tough enough to do damage even to truck tires! Bus ride from Potosi to Sucre stopped abruptly when it ran into another highway blockade; this time twenty miles to our destination and planned to last until tomorrow. A five kilometer stretch of road was closed with obstacles like this.

Sucre Bolivia: Ugly thorn buses used as highway obstacles. Bus ride from Potosi to Sucre stopped abruptly when it ran into another highway blockade; this time twenty miles to our destination and planned to last until tomorrow. A five kilometer stretch of road was closed with obstacles like this.

Sucre Bolivia: Ugly thorn buses used as highway obstacles. Bus ride from Potosi to Sucre stopped abruptly when it ran into another highway blockade; this time twenty miles to our destination and planned to last until tomorrow. A five kilometer stretch of road was closed with obstacles like this.

Sucre Bolivia: At the other end of the blocked section of road I came upon this peaceful gathering of protestors. Nearby police did not interfere.

Sucre Bolivia: Bus ride from Potosi to Sucre went through this little town.

Sucre Bolivia: Bus ride from Potosi to Sucre passed many Jacaranda trees like these.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: This is the object of veneration all marchers-dancers stopped to worship.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Replica of the object of veneration all marchers-dancers stopped to worship.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the other young dancers pausing for a lollypop.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: There were many law enforcement officers around the plaza, mostly directing traffic.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: There were many law enforcement officers around the plaza, mostly directing traffic.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers pause to pray at the end of the march.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Cute kid couldn't keep his eyes off me.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: This lady always seemed to be in my field of view as she maneuvered herself to take photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: I watched this little girl wandering around the refreshment stands, one of which belonged to her mother. Watching her eat cotton candy brings back fond memories of my own first experiences with the fluffy, melt in your mouth stuff.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: This mother-daughter couple in their coordinated extravagant costumes willingly pose for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musical performers marching in the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Entrance to the main government building.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: One of the fresh orange juice squeezers around the plaza doing a big business during the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Another of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: More of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Another of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Another of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in procession after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join the procession after mass.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Spectators lined the parade route. Most sat in the review stands provided by the city. These folks chose the curbs.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Spectators lined the parade route. Most sat in the review stands provided by the city. These folks chose the curbs.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre Bolivia: Government employees marching in the Wednesday parade leading up to the Saturday extravaganza.

Sucre Bolivia: Government employees marching in the Wednesday parade leading up to the Saturday extravaganza.

Sucre Bolivia: Government employees marching in the Wednesday parade leading up to the Saturday extravaganza.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in procession after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in the procession after mass.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in the procession after mass. 

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe October 6, 2007
Feast of Virgin de Guadalupe with extravagant parade that circled the Plaza 25 de Mayo across from the Capital Plaza Hotel. 160 photos

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: One of the young dances in the colorful parade around the Plaza 25 de Mayo.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Refreshment sellers work the crowds.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Refreshment sellers work the crowds.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musical performers marching in the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musical performers marching in the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the marching groups carried banners to show their affiliations.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musicians in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Crowds along the parade route.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Indigenous people in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musical performers marching in the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musical performers marching in the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musical performers marching in the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musical performers marching in the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers pause to pray at end of march.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers pause to pray at end of march.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers pause to pray at end of march.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers pause to pray at the end of the march.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Grandma sits this one out. The orange soda was brought to her by a boy of about eight.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Three of the indigenous dancers in their colorful native costumes posing for photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: More of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos.

Sucre Bolivia: Juice and balloon vendors around the central plaza.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Start of the procession after mass.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Start of the procession after mass.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Start of the procession after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Start of the procession after mass.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Musicians join in after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: This is the object of veneration all marchers-dancers stopped to worship.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Banner on the city hall across from the plaza.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: One of the older dancers in a colorful costume.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: This pair of radio-TV commentators interviewed me in Spanish... no doubt giving their listeners a good laugh.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers make music with their feet.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: So beautiful are their costumes I couldn't stop myself taking a second picture! The mother doesn't look old enough to have a mature daughter! (She loved that observation)

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: These kids obviously had the same costume maker as the mother-daughter pair.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos after the end of their marching-dancing ordeal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: More of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the musical performers marching in the parade.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Tired dancers take off their costumes here piled and waiting for removal.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: More of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: This grandmother and child are a common sight begging around the plaza area frequented by tourists.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: One of the extraordinary colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: More of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: As the march ends some of the participants imbibe. This group of boisterous marchers refused to obey police orders to clear the street.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Another of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: More of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: More of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: More of the dancers in their colorful costumes posing for photos.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in the procession after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in the procession after mass Sunday.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Some of the dancers in their colorful costumes.

Sucre Bolivia: Marching band in the Wednesday parade leading up to the Saturday extravaganza.

Sucre Bolivia: Marching band in the Wednesday parade leading up to the Saturday extravaganza.

Sucre Bolivia: Government employees marching in the Wednesday parade leading up to the Saturday extravaganza.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in the procession after mass.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join in the procession after mass.

Sucre-Festival Virgin de Guadalupe: Dancers join procession after mass Sunday. 

Sucre Bolivia: Obscure plaza street entrance to the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Court yard inside the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: View of the courtyard from one of the three windows in my suite at the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: View of the courtyard from one of the three windows in my suite at the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Breakfast is served in the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Daily breakfast buffet at the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: One of the paintings hanging in the sitting room in my suite at the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Corner decorations in the dining room at the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: One of the paintings hanging in the hall to my suite at the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia - Plaza Hotel October 8, 2007 - 36 photos
Photos taken in and around the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I spent seven day during October 2007.

Sucre Bolivia: Decorations around the pool area inside the elegantly restored $35x four star Capital Plaza Hotel next to the 25 de Mayo Plaza.

Sucre Bolivia: Pool area inside the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Obscure plaza street entrance to the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Court yard inside the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Daily breakfast buffet at the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Daily breakfast buffet at the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: My bathroom sink the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: This is the sitting room in my suite at the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Every room in my suite has a chandelier like this.

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: Decorations around the pool area inside the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Inside the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Inside the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Hallway leading to the bedroom in my suite at the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Court yard inside the elegantly restored Capital Plaza Hotel .

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: Masks on the walls of the Internet access room in the $35 Capital Plaza Hotel where I stayed.

Sucre Bolivia: One of the paintings hanging in the sitting room in my suite at the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: One of the decorations in the sitting room in my suite at the hotel.

Sucre Bolivia: Polished Teak wood floors in my hotel suite.

Sucre Bolivia: One of the paintings hanging in the hall to my suite at the hotel.

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