Day 5 - July 22, 2017 Sucre, Bolivia

Today is a light schedule day to catch up on our sleep, enjoy our excellent hotel, and practise siesta. Our hotel provides their guests with two different kinds of breakfast: traditional and American, each on separate floors. We're ready to indulge ourselves to eat both but soon found out that the traditional breakfast consists only of a purple beet drink (which is served warm and quite good) and some freshly baked local bread. The American breakfast is a full breakfast with all kinds of breads and pastries, fresh fruit salad, cold cuts and cheese, cereals, and made-to-order omelette.  I was mindful of our altitude and didn't gorge excessively. They even have tea bags of Coca leaves which the locals chew to help them adjusting to higher altitude.

The breakfast was served on third floor which has a very nice view of Sucre. The morning sun made the sceneries even more magical. After breakfast, we visited the Ethnological and Folklore museum which was very different from what the guide books described. The exhibit was about religious artifacts used for possessions instead of masks.

The ladies did some shopping today after we walked by a shop that sells Alpaca clothings which were on sale. Prices were way cheaper than in Peru. After more shopping, we went back to hotel to rest.

After siesta, we visited the Convent Santa Teresa and unfortunately they only had tours in Spanish. We tagged along and had to guess at what the tour guide was saying. Inside the convent was a beautiful courtyard. There were still nuns living inside.

The La Recoleta lookout is only a short walk up the hill from the convent. The view is beautiful but different from that off Convent San Felipe Neri yesterday. This is higher and looked down on the whole city. Quite scenic with a big plaza with a fountain surrounded by two museums and a monastery.

For dinner tonight, we picked La Taverns serving French & European cuisine. This one ranks pretty high on TripAdvisor and it did not disappoint (unlike the previous night at El Solar). All of us picked steaks. Unfortunately, they informed us that they were out of Argentina steak. This makes us suspect Argentina steaks must be a step higher in quality (the "Kobe" beef of South America??)