Bolivian Food, Beer & Markets (With Prices) In Bolivia’s Most Beautiful City

Welcome to Sucre! So this is The capital. One of the capitals. Yeah, there's some internal debate as to like what is the capital. Between La Paz, Sucre, take your pick We took a 14-hour bus last night from La Paz to Sucre And it was the nicest bus we have ever been on. I slept the entire time. It's like business class. It was busness class If you watch the end of our last video from La Paz from the Death Road biking Which you should see is so much fun at the end there We get on and even Nacho our CEO our guide was like, it's not normally this good Yeah, he was like, please be the right bus. Please be the right bus. Don't kick us off. But have a look at the city We're just up here with the laundry Well, we got told that there was a cool spot on the roof. So we just came up So yeah, so this is called the this is known as the white city and I'll give you one guess as to why So mountains in the backdrop Yeah, we've got the tower. We've got some center. So we're really close to the heart of everything We're gonna go and do some exploring. So basically over the next couple of days There's a couple of things we've got our eyes on and I think it's gonna be a fun one to check out from what we've Seen from arriving at the hotel this morning go for a little bit of a walk going out for breakfast I'm vibing with this. More of a Cusco kind of feel. Yeah lower altitude So it's a bit more chill and it's I think it's like the sixth largest city Way less people here, which is nice So we've had our meeting and we've met our local tour guide Carla Who talked us through all of the optional extras that you can do over the next couple of days There's like hiking mountain biking rock climbing. So we're gonna like chill take it easy. Try some nice food Check out some markets probably but right now we're on like an orientation walk which is great because it gets us to like we get to actually see the city and then find places that we want To go back to and just for reference if you didn't watch the last video We're on a 15-day La Paz to Buenos Aires tour with G Adventures and we've just met a whole new group of travelers We're gonna be cruising with. There's a few places that we're gonna visit on this tour where there's a lot of things included But a lot of the other cities like this, there's all optional extras on top. So you can either just chill take it easy yourself Otherwise we meet kind of a local guide like this and then we get given a bunch of different options and depending on how many Other people decide that they want to join that tour The price kind of comes down in line with it and then everything is just arranged for you It's it's hands-free, but at the moment we're just walking around the square. Carla's showing us all these All these buildings. It's beautiful. I mean you can understand why it's called the white city, but it is a it's a charmer we're seeing museums and Cathedrals and all sorts of stunning spots. We've got a good feel for this already This cathedral was constructed in the end of the 1500s and beginning in the 1600s Okay, so there are busier places in the city which is to be expected but The general feedback from us and from everybody else as well on the tour here is that? Yeah, this place is beautiful It reminds us a little bit of Cusco in the sense that it's a bit smaller. It's got charm Beautiful buildings. It's sort of a little bit happening, but it's not too chaotic There's more commercial shops, which is something that we didn't really find in La Paz People seem friendly. We've heard that it's really safe Lots of iconic buildings huge amount of history and a big selling point is it's flat Like La Paz which was basically like mountain climbing every single step. This is epic We're now getting to see like the local market where everyone does their shopping The presentation of all the fruit and everything is stunning And it's so nice that we get the chance to be situated and know like the places that we want to go back to e.g. the chocolate shop What's up? It's made with bottled water here apparently. Okay, like judging by all that fruit back there. I'm like, mmm, it's gonna be good Yeah, as long as there's mango, I'm happy. Yeah, hopefully there is. Have you seen any in the markets? No, not really. I feel like I can see some up there. What I don't understand about markets and this isn't just a knock on this place But why is there what 20, 25 different stores offering what's clearly probably the exact same thing I don't know if I fully understand that but We'll give it a go either way You're gonna have to have a sip first It's good, it's not super cold Yeah, this is a a room-temperature mango and milkshake, but it's only only six Bolivianos So it's pretty cheap not as sweet as what we had in Malaysia recently If you watched that one you knew we were like losing our shit over how tasty that one was but still delicious kind of refreshing How was your juice? It was delicious. I got orange and carrot and now I feel healthy and nutritious Why didn't you let me pick the one that I wanted though? The tuna Did you find out what that translated to? I don't know. Why was there tuna on the menu? Surely nobody's going mmm, I feel like a bit of mango and can you just just savoury that out with some tuna please? Last night was heaps of fun. We went up to this rooftop to watch the sunset Where Danger and Nacho got up to some mischief And then we went out for dinner and drinks at this really cool rooftop bar that we would never have found by ourselves Wow, it's beautiful here Okay, we're not sure what's really happening are we? No idea, no idea I found a seat outside and so I just thought I'm gonna steal it because I don't want to sit inside on such a nice day But we have this receipt, we've paid We've picked what we wanted And I've no idea what happens next Okay, so where we are is El Patio Salteneria and what we're here to do is eat salteñas Which is a Bolivian must-eat. Every Bolivian person we speak to says oh have you tried salteñas yet? And looking around it's all Bolivian people So salteñas are basically like a baked empanada But the difference with these ones is that they've got like a juicy filling It's almost like a stew on the inside I can see people like behind Dan and they're kind of like almost drinking them a little bit and then eating the rest of it Oh my gosh, it is so heavy That's the heaviest thing I've ever picked up I was not expecting that So in our research we found out this place has been pumping out salteñas since 1983 What we failed to research was how do you eat it? We've seen some people with spoons Some people just holding it Apparently one of the reasons it became so popular is because you don't need cutlery a bit like the Cornish pasty We've seen other people with a knife and fork wrap it around in like a serviette. I don't know This is the chicken one. We also got a carne gante, so like a spicy beef I don't know, do I go for the end? The crust, the handle So buttery, the bread is sweet and then the chicken is more savory. So it's like and a little bit spicy So how many things was that three or four things going on all in the one place? If I'm honest, it's way better than I thought and this is better than any empanada I've ever had I like empanadas, but I'm like, let's take it or leave it. This feels more like Delicious chicken wrapped in a buttery crispy dense bun full of soupy goodness I'm sold. Considering how touristy this place is in terms of how busy it is. That's pretty good value. That's 24 Bolivianos, we're including the coke that we had as well, but we did find a quail egg or something We found some olives, found some sultanas, some potatoes. So it really does turn into a bit of a mixed bag I would personally prefer no olives and the rest of it I would be happy with because I chunked down on an olive chip, which wasn't ideal So the square that we went to yesterday, they shut it down on a Sunday for these big markets And they've got them right in the middle. No cars. We're actually on the outskirts so there are cars That's why it's so loud. We should have told you when we were over there, but I can see a sign there It seems much more calm and relaxed in that central area Feels nice with it all closed off like this. It's beautiful. It's much more calm today than it was yesterday And you can actually stop and appreciate all these like incredible buildings Ever since we saw it yesterday, you've had one thing in mind When you come to a place that's known for its chocolate and its cacao, you can't not try it, right? So we're heading to a place called Parati, which is known for its kind of handcrafted Artisanal chocolate and this is the place in Bolivia to try chocolate In 1990, I think this place started and originally there was only seven employees now There's I think there's a hundred and fifty most of them are women. So I think that's kind of part of their motto And they make 45 metric ton of chocolate every single month Unbelievable, we're not sure about export versus how many people are eating it at the square over here So we've got 7 or 8 and it cost 18 Boliviano Alright, I think we'll try the, I think this is the toffee one Okay, it could be the coffee one. Toffee or coffee. Cheers. Toffee or coffee. Oh my god, insanely good So delicious. Pineapple liquor? Mine is Bolivian nuts, but it looks like it's got some sugar. Is it sugar? Salt in it too. Whoa Vina This is like a jelly. They somehow do sweet without doing sugary. It's not too sweet. Mmm. It's a milky sweet It's got like a really deep chocolatey flavor. Like rich but not bitter. You got this. You took the words right out of my mouth I'll take the chocolate out of your mouth if you don't eat it All right, we're gonna go burn some of this off now. We've got something we want to show you Let's have a walk for 20 minutes up to the viewpoint so that we can see the panoramic Why is that so hard to say? Panoramic views of the whole city. The thing that is cool about this place is that we're all fighting is that There's mountains in the backdrop. So I think seven of our group have gone hiking today. There's a lot of greenery I think two or three have gone mountain biking. Then there's a few like us that just kind of just started on Messy here hit the ball at the same time You didn't wait a couple of us that are just hanging out and having food as well. But this is a monastery behind us here Somewhere there's a fountain there It's apparently off from the 1600 I think was when Was built or was put down in the center where we've been exploring when Zucca was first established and then for some reason they repositioned It up here as well But nice little walk. Everybody's just watching me as they just kind of chat to this camera to this camera with you It's just us this part of town also feels a lot more Spanish a lot more colonial buildings We've got a lot more the houses more residential. I suppose with the cobblestone streets And just I mentioned flat earlier. It's not flat everywhere This part of the city is not flat, but you can see the central area is all beautifully fat But all the fun can be had out here as well There are so many cute shops and markets here And I mean most of them are exactly the same But I managed to pick up a little bracelet my second bracelet tourist mode well and truly activated And it was five Bolivianos, and it's got a little D on it for danger And I got one at the floating Island and it's already pulling a little bit. But hey, it looks nice Five Bolivianos, what do you expect? You know something I like I figured out what I like Yeah, yeah lots of squares Lots of green spaces yes agreed and just like amazing architecture as well Yeah, it's like always something to look at around every corner exactly And it just feels like it just breaks it breaks up the concrete jungle in a more relaxed one nice way Back in the markets just before closing we might have messed up We're looking for something I actually thought was super touristy, which is these it's like a chorizo sandwich burger thing and We were going to one place called El Cuerto Then we remembered that there was this place in the markets, which we may actually look back over the footage It was Lopi's so it wasn't like it is actually touristy Don't to do now If you know this but if you don't go out with friends that can speak Spanish you can do translation in the Google Translate app so I've just taken the photo, and it's translated everything for us all right with a bit of broken Spanish or some Spanglish We managed to get there and in all honesty like we haven't really done that much research All we know is that this is super popular here people love it this place has been pretty busy It's a chorizo sausage inside what looks like a hamburger bun with some lettuce and tomato and mayo We got a local beer thing and it was cheap Yeah, yeah, it's so good to try a new beer. We've not had this one before we've been drinking a lot of it's called Pasenya, which is really nice. This is Surenya, and this one says that it's from Sucre itself So cheers to that my love and an awesome day of exploring That's not as good, Pasenya is definitely better It's got a bitterness to it, a bit malty compared to the others Chorizo has so much more flavor than what I'm used to you know sometimes when you have chorizo it can be a little bit like Dense almost like a bit chewy. This is like super soft. Dan was like in slow-mo you biting into it I was like oh here we go Bit straight through it's really good flavors. All right that's gonna do it for today I hope you've enjoyed exploring this capital slash not capital with us So much more to come on this trip obviously we're on like day Three or four this whole trip is 15 days the salt flats Chile, Argentina, Atacama Desert, Buenos Aires. There's so much amazing stuff to come. I'm just It's good times out here. Thanks for watching