Sucre - Out and About

I stayed in Sucre for one month and a half, taking Spanish lessons because it was a nice city at the same time as being affordable.

Just because I care about you, this is how I do my laundry.

Here, when a truck is labelled "Dodge", it isn't the brand. It is an instruction.

 Zebras control pedestrian activity here......

 .....they help the police

 Extra double leaf - still with two leaves, just extra double?

Snappy chappies.

Notice how there's a political advertisement to the top right is a stencil? It's for mayor (alcalde).

I wonder if this is a political stencil for mayor too? At least we already know he is a puppet.

I know it looks like pigeons are standing on this statue, but they are actually part of the statue itself. This guy was Bolivia's first homing pigeon breeder and the postal system still uses homing pigeons to this day, seeing as Bolivia is land-locked and pigeons aren't.

This is a wall of footprints. Dinosaur footprints. 

Next to the dinosaur museum is a cement factory.

Sucre - My trip to the hat factory!

This is my trip to the hat factory. I bought a hat, but I didn't take a photo of it and I. I sent it back home to keep it safe and travel light. It is a black fedora.

First they clean the wool.

Then they rinse the wool.

Then they dry off the wool.

Then they do something with the wool. Ammonia is in the air.

Then this machine does something too.

80% Argentinian wool, 20% Bolivian wool. They have a wool treaty.

They make these bell shapes. This is how ALL their hats begin to take shape.

Here is where they go to dye. All hats dye eventually.

This is what they call "El Caracol", which means "The Snail". The floor manager gets into this machine and gives orders to the workers, all at the speed of a snail. They said to me when they sell enough hats they will make a shell and he can live in the machine, it is every Bolivians dream. 

In this photo the "Pellizco Culo" pinches the workers bum when he slacks off. Hey look, bowler hats!

He is finishing the hats, and I am finishing my tour. Bye bye hat factory!!

They were luton beds before they were luton stores in England.