Profile
Blog
Photos
Videos
We got an horrendous night bus from La Paz to Sucre. It took about 14 hours but that wasn't the problem. The screaming baby sat 2 seats away from us was the problem!
We travelled with Charlie, a lovely lass who we met in Copacabana. Apparently she needed to get out of La Paz as she was suffereing from altitude sickness but the truth is we are too much fun to live without!! Hahaha!
Once we got to sucre we got a cab to the centre to find the hostel. Tom was sat up front with the driver cum tour guide who preceded to speak non stop for the whole 10 minute journey. needless to say none of us were listening!
Sucre has been reccomended to us as a pretty colonial city with white washed buildings! First impressions didn't match this description! But to be honest when the du shone it was much better!
On our first day there we decided to bite the bullet and visit the famous dinosaur footprints! Now being sceptical i didn't believe they were real before we got there and when we did get there I was even more convinced they were fake! Tom however seems to have been fooled by the tourist trap! It was a really fun trip though and we didn't stop laughing all day! We caught the 'Dino Truck' (just a truck with some fake dinosaur claws stuck to the top) to the quarry where these so called footprints were found. We paid our entrance fee to a ridiculous dinosaur theme park thing (don't really know what to call it!) and we were greeted by an english speaking guide. First off he walked us to a balcony and pointed out in the distance a wall with marks on it. The dinosaur footprints! They were about 300meters away from us and you had to squint to see anything. As Charlie put it they looked like horse shoe prints! Anyway the guide took us round this dinosaur museum which just had huge plastic dinosaurs everywhere! Everytime the guide spoke everone in the group would burst out giggling and we couldn´t stop. I dont know why i think it was because everything he was saying was ridiculous! He didn´t know the names of the dinosaurs and kept saying things like ´the dinosaur over there with teh spikes on its back!!!´(ie: a stegasaurous!) When he had run out of incitful things to say he went to turn on the ´realistic´dinosaur sounds to complement the lpastic figures! Hilarious! We had fun taking stupid pictures but an amazing prehistoric experience it was not!
We have all decided to move on tomorrow and head to Uyuni in south Bolivia to do a salt flats tour. See you then!! xxx
- comments