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Sucre is the constitutional capital of Bolivia but to arrive there you would never believe it. It´s a quaint town with around a quarter of a million inhabitants and everything in the city centre is painted white which makes it look very colonial and really pretty. It´s also 3,000 metres above sea level so our first experience of cold in about 3 months! Gareth is loving it, me not so much :) I was born for warmer climes.
One of the big sites in Sucre is some fossilised dinosaur tracks apparently the largest site in the world with over 5,000 tracks. It´s pretty amazing as the tracks are perfectly preserved due to volcanic activity which covered them in ash, therefore preserving them perfectly, but it´s also a bit naff with lots of plastic models of dinosaurs, life size and all! The tracks are in a place called Cal Orkco and the huge footprints walk up a 70 degree wall in a cement quarry (its amazing that they didn´t destroy them before they found them, just lucky I guess), which used to be a lake floor between 65 million and 70 million years ago.
We met another couple travelling in Sucre and headed out for a few drinks with them on Saturday night. After a few drinks we discovered that they were 10 years younger than us, almost to the day, God do we feel old!
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