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Sucre; as sweet as the name suggests…

Sucre, a sleepy hollow 50mins flight from La Paz, tucked away in its own little world.

A great place to unwind and recharge the batteries. Staying in a 5-star hotel, Bolivia style (the dollar working in our favour again), the Hotel Parador Santa Maria La Real offered a real oasis of luxury, off the consistent dusty road. A plesure really.

The one activity we did do, apart from what seems to be consistent eating, was go to the Dinosaur Park, Parque Cretacico. Sounds kitsch doesn´t it. But it was good, and that´s because they´ve kept the story as real as possible, even though there is a theme park tone happening around it. What you see is a hill, sliced in half, with the sheer wall facing you displaying its many tracks of different dinosaur footprints. Quite impressive really.

How can this be? The concrete factory that owns the site, was cutting into the limestone to make what they do. In doing so, they came across this amazing discovery. Why it´s standing to attention is because of tetonic plate movement many many years ago, which took the flat surface of the ground the dinosaurs walked on and raised it to feature upright in the present day.  We had almost expected another Puno Disney, fortunately this wasn´t the case.

Leaving today, heading to Potosi, and an underground silver mine…hhhmmmm