Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Sucre and wondering dinosaurs


We decided to avoid the 15 hours bolivian bus ride by splurging on a flight from La Paz to Sucre. I was mainly concerned by the bolivian belief that people are able to hold their bladders for 15 hours at a time (and those that know me...)


Sucre is not a bad little town, but not alot to do. We stayed in a funky hotel which Che Guevara reportedly stayed in on his journey through South America. Had the best tropical fruit salAdd Videoad ever at the markets. Mind you the fruit section was right next to the blood, intestines, pig hoofs and what looked like a gutted dog....



The most interesting thing we found about Sucre was the dinosaur tracks. About 15 years ago some workers at a cement factory on the outskirts of town found some dinosaur marks. Experts were eventually brought in (10 years ago) and they realised there were over 6000 tracks from 130 different dinosaurs on this one slab of wall. They are trying desperately to preserve the tracks but erosion and lack of money means the tracks are eventually falling away. Only 2 days before we arrived a whole section of tracks fell to the ground.

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