Erin & Regan's South American Adventure
Huellas de los dinosaurios
Hola,
On our last day in Sucre we decided to finally visit the "Huellas de los dinosaurios" or dinosaur footprints. We paid 10 bolivianos for the truck ride there and back, this was the truck we left in:
The park itself is only 3 months old. They have many life sized replica dinosaurs, these were the coolest ones:
Did you spot the one related to the NZ Tuatara? The guide even mentions it on the tour!
These are the footprints themselves, you can view them through binoculars. The biggest prints are from the biggest kind of dinosaur. There are prints from smaller ones but you can only see them through the binoculars.
Apparently all of Sucre used to be a lake with a volcano nearby. One day the volcano erupted and the ash fossilised the prints. Later there was an earthquake which raised the once flat bed of the lake into a cliff face.
In 1994 the prints were uncovered by miners collecting materials for concrete. They stopped mining only because they found too high a concentration of magnesium in the soil, which doesn´t make for good concrete. The prints are now part of a national park.
The truck changed for our ride home:
On the way home we spotted one of the colourful local buses.
We splashed out and spent 66 bolivianos on lunch (approx NZ$13). This was the view from the restaurant.
Regan: No, no bones, only footprints. (12/04/06)
sue: Did you see any bones? The size of those things is amazing. Think we should stick with tuataras. (11/26/06)