Sucre to La Paz by air

Sucre airport. We are leaving for la Paz.

Flying over the Andes.

A large cement factory. Part of the mountains is disappearing.

Snow and ice. 

Snow on the fields.

We are nearing La Paz. The landscape gets more and more flat.

El Alto, with more than 1,5 million inhabitants lies above La Paz, on the Altiplano. The Altiplano is here as flat as the polders in Holland.

Farms on the edge of the town.

Small fields along winding rivers.

Here you can see the claimed plots. Some of them still empty.

A huge city lies down there.

It is high (over 4000 meters) and cold. Houses are not very well isolated.  

In some places the uniformity of squares is broken by other forms. 

Almost there.....

Churches everywhere, but this one makes me think of a Russian cathedral....
To get to La Paz we have to go down into a steep slope almost into a crack in the Altiplano.

Colonnade with a view....

On top of an hill, overlooking the city, lies the convent of Recoleta (Franciscan - 1601). The convent is among other things famous for its chapel with wood carvings. It was not allowed to take pictures inside the convent (except for the chapel).

 

The convent is interesting, but I really liked the square in front and the magnificent view from the colonnade.

At the feet of the colonnade was a small restaurant..... with a terrace.... with that view....

Sucre

We walk in Sucre, low historical buildings, busy traffic and fantastic bundles of electrical wires (as everywhere else in Latin America).

The capital Sucre is the 5th largest city of Bolivia. 

Apart from  the "Casa de la Libertad" and the "Supreme Court" there are many churches, and other buildings that are interesting. Later we will visit the Recoleta convent.

A grand Theater.

The impressive Government Palace of the department of  Chuquisaca build in 1896.

Just leave it to the women to keep the streets clean......