Will Be Right Back

Continuing my mission in search for a music in Bolivia I'm finally finding the place with as much music as one can imagine, along with a lot of other visual treats.  Before going there, I'll be spending a couple of days in Sucre, the white city.  Trip map created using Wanderlog, a travel planner on iOS and Android The White City Nickname "white city" comes from the fact that whole city center of Sucre is uniformly white, all the facades of colonial buildings made of bright limestone of plaster. With bright-red roofs on the top. I'm only spending a couple of days in Sucre and - obviously - there's a big street parade while I'm there, but this time I'm not enjoying it so much as I got sick and I feel awful all the time. Prefer quiet museums to the loud streets. Need to prep for what's to come very soon. Time to leave for Oruro. The bus gets filled quickly, it's as full as all the accommodations in the town, prices hike up by hun...

Do you know the sone with kids screaming "where's the music" to some jazzy tunes? No? You should . This is the soundtrack to this post and the main topic of my trip through Bolivia. Everyone knows about the carnival in Rio, but this is not the only place where huge carnival celebrations happen. Something that's arguably even more interesting is what's happening in Bolivia roughly at the same time. Additionally, Bolivians don't seem to have problems finding a reason to celebrate - on my way to the big event in Oruro in Bolivia I'm going to see many more celebrations and hear a lot of music.  Before I get to Bolivia though I have thousands of kilometers on night buses through northern Chile, with a number of interesting stops on my way up.  Trip map created using Wanderlog, for making itineraries on iOS and Android The North  Chilean north is not what I usually think of in the context of north. No snow, no blizzards, I didn't notice too many polar b...