Davids moving teeth

Dentist visit in sucre

Success. I have been to a Bolivian dentist and was impressed.
Amongst the many age related defects accumulating in my old body is loose teeth at the bottom front.I am now very long in the tooth.
A couple of years ago my aussie dentist stuck 6 teeth together and they remained pretty firm until I bit an apple in Patagonia. For the last few weeks one tooth has been trying to drop out.
A lucky recommendation from Irish Mike who is having all of his fillings replaced led to me visiting a lovely lady with a modern dentists room. She spent over an hour gently drilling then gluing the necessary teeth. No pain whatsoever despite no anaesthetic and a one way spanish lesson. I couldn't say much as I was in the dentists chair.

Carnival here gets wilder and wilder with water flying everywhere and the bands still marching the streets all day.
This afternoon we went to the witches market as we had been told lots of people were buying interesting things to give to Pachamama on Tuesday the last day of carnival. The witches market is in an obscure part of the enormous Mercado Campesino.We tried asking a couple of people for directions but they said there is no witches market. We had been told it was near the second hand clothes stalls so Youngmi asked two young ladies Donde este ropas segundo manos-where are the second hand clothes. When they gave us directions Youngmi followed up with can we buy dried llama foetuses near there. This must have gained something in translation as the ladies looked very puzzled.

There were lots of stalls all doing good trade. A bit like christmas eve in Australia. Two stalls had really long queues and we are told these ladies have really good potions. One packet had pictures which indicated that after taking the potion a man could lift 3 kgs without using his hands or feet.
We plan to go to La Paz on Sat to continue our travels and try our spanish