Sucre
By Josh - October 28, 2018
Sucre - Bolivia - 2810m
Small, white and dinosaurs.
Day 1:
We arrived in Sucre at the very early hour of 5 o’clock in the morning. After neither of us had a good night sleep on the bus we were praying by the time we got to our hostel we would be able to check straight in and go to bed for a few hours. Luckily our prayers were answered and we were able to check in at 5.30 and go straight to bed for a few more hours. By the time we were up and showered and everything we were starting to get hungry. So we decided to go and explore Sucre and try and find somewhere to get some lunch. We ended up finding this market whilst looking for some food which had pretty much everything you wanted accept already made food, plus we didn’t really trust the food out of there as from what we had heard from other travellers the food in Bolivia isn’t the safest and seemed to be where most people get ill on their travels, plus all the flies flying around the meat was off putting. After the market we found this little cafe for lunch which had Rachel had seen really good reviews for on tripadivisor and it was easy to see why. After lunch we wanted to go to one of the museums, however, the museums close for a couple of hours during the day, so we went back to the hostel to chill for a little bit and go through the hundreds of photos we took at the salt fats. In the end we didn’t go to the museum because Rachel wasn’t feeling to well (fortunately it was just due to being tired from the busy few days before hand) and the fact the heavens opened so we just had a chilled afternoon relaxing at the hostel.
Day 2:
Thankfully Rachel was feeling better today. We woke up early that morning to FaceTime both families as it was Jess’ birthday and the WiFi was good enough that we could actually have a conversation. After doing that we had breakfast and went to get a public bus to go to the dinosaur park where we would see dinosaur footprints. Using the public bus was pretty easy to do as the bus stop was round the corner of our hostel and the dinosaur park was the last stop of the buses route. The bus was only meant to take 45 minutes but the traffic was horrendus and ended up taking more like 1 hour and a half. We got there just in time for the free tour of the dinosaur footprints. The dinosaur footprints were on the side of this hill due to the movement of tectonic plates. It was unbelievable how clear the footprints were. You could clearly distinct that different footprints came from different types of dinosaurs. It was thought that the cliff face had dinosaur footprints about 100 meters. As well as dinosaur footprints the dinosaur park offered stunnning surrounding scenery. In the first picture you can’t see a V in the wall that’s missing, this part of the wall fell away, there is 2 million years difference between the now exposed surface Andy what used to be there. Unfortunately that was about it for the dinosaur park so when we left feeling a bit underwhelmed, but to say we saw dinosaur footprints is pretty cool still even if it didn’t match expectations. Fortunately the bus journey back didn’t take as long as the first, only taking the 45 minutes it’s supposed to. When we got back into central Sucre we went to the supermarket to get some bits and pieces for dinner. Once we got them and dropped them off at the hostel we took a 30 minute walk to a view point of the city. This viewpoint gave out great views of the city. These views were unfortunately spoiled by dark rain clouds starting to form over the city. This meant that as we didn’t bring any clothes on the walk for rain as none was forecasted and the clouds weren’t so prominent when we left for the viewpoint, we didn’t hang about just in case it started to chuck it down. We then spent the rest of the day sorting bits of bobs out as the next day we flew to La Paz.
Day 2:
Thankfully Rachel was feeling better today. We woke up early that morning to FaceTime both families as it was Jess’ birthday and the WiFi was good enough that we could actually have a conversation. After doing that we had breakfast and went to get a public bus to go to the dinosaur park where we would see dinosaur footprints. Using the public bus was pretty easy to do as the bus stop was round the corner of our hostel and the dinosaur park was the last stop of the buses route. The bus was only meant to take 45 minutes but the traffic was horrendus and ended up taking more like 1 hour and a half. We got there just in time for the free tour of the dinosaur footprints. The dinosaur footprints were on the side of this hill due to the movement of tectonic plates. It was unbelievable how clear the footprints were. You could clearly distinct that different footprints came from different types of dinosaurs. It was thought that the cliff face had dinosaur footprints about 100 meters. As well as dinosaur footprints the dinosaur park offered stunnning surrounding scenery. In the first picture you can’t see a V in the wall that’s missing, this part of the wall fell away, there is 2 million years difference between the now exposed surface Andy what used to be there. Unfortunately that was about it for the dinosaur park so when we left feeling a bit underwhelmed, but to say we saw dinosaur footprints is pretty cool still even if it didn’t match expectations. Fortunately the bus journey back didn’t take as long as the first, only taking the 45 minutes it’s supposed to. When we got back into central Sucre we went to the supermarket to get some bits and pieces for dinner. Once we got them and dropped them off at the hostel we took a 30 minute walk to a view point of the city. This viewpoint gave out great views of the city. These views were unfortunately spoiled by dark rain clouds starting to form over the city. This meant that as we didn’t bring any clothes on the walk for rain as none was forecasted and the clouds weren’t so prominent when we left for the viewpoint, we didn’t hang about just in case it started to chuck it down. We then spent the rest of the day sorting bits of bobs out as the next day we flew to La Paz.
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