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Day 37:
We got to Sucre at about 7 in the morning, so obviously our rooms weren't ready yet; instead we left our bags in storage and headed out for breakfast, not the best ham and cheese toastie of my life but it did the job. Our rooms weren't going to be ready until 11, so we decided to visit the house of liberty. I wish I could tell you more about it, but the only tour they had was in Spanish because it was a Sunday, and so all I gathered was that Peru, Chile and Argentina all helped revolt against the Spanish for Independence, and that there was a lot of gold adornments. The main Square in Sucre is called Plaza 25 de Mayo, because that is when the main revolution against the Spanish took place in Sucre. It's a really beautiful, peaceful square, surrounded by shops, restaurants, and the old government palace before the government moved to La Paz (even though Sucre is technically still the capital)
After getting our rooms (MINE WAS ON THE GROUND FLOOR) and showering, we caught a taxi to the Dinosaur park. About 25 years ago some quarries were quarrying and discovered a wall with about 5055 dinosaur footprints on it, the most famous being a 347m long trail from a baby Tyrannosaurus Rex known as 'Jonny walker' (only to his mates, in business he was Jonathan)
This discovery had resulted in a whole park being built and lots of research into dinosaurs of the late Cretaceous period (which is where these footprints were from)
They can't tell exactly which sketches of Dinosaur left which footprint, but they can narrow it down to type of dinosaur, like Terropods. The tracks are on a raised wall, because when an earthquake formed the Andes, these surfaces pushed together downwards, literally the opposite of how mountains are formed. Some are just going steady, but there's one that slows down, speeds up, as if he's scouting out prey, then chasing it. We watched a video on the late Cretaceous period, where mammals and birds were just starting to appear, and two baby T-Rex's killed their weaker brother so they could get more food for themselves (d*** ), and it ended with the meteor landing and wiping out over 60% of life on earth, including all the dinosaurs (except crocodiles)
The park is insanely cool because it has life size models of all the dinosaurs found in South America during that period, including a HUGE one, only discovered ten years ago, that is over 12m high and weighs 80 tons. It's so interesting to actually see the size of these animals, and what they eat, the biggest ones are usually herbivores, so I guess that's a shout for vegetarianism.
LUNCH TIME
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