Dino Tracks in Sucre

Well, I am a bit behind here in the blog... last week we were in Sucre and in Potosi. Sucre is a gorgeous town that seems really international and ... well, relatively wealthy for Bolivia. While there, besides stuffing our faces with gorgeous food, we hopped on the Dino Truck, which took us out to a nearby cement quarry. They have discovered a bunch of dinosaur tracks there, from both herbivores and carnivores, large and small, and it was really incredible to see! Quite a change from most of the things we have been doing and seeing here in South America. The unfortunate thing is that they are still dynamiting rock out of the quarry, and the prints are located on a really soft layer of sandstone... so this means that they are being eroded relatively quickly... not something that would occur if these prints were found at home, but that is Bolivia for you. (who knows, the cement quarry is probably owned by an international company or something!).

After a lovely time in Sucre, we moved on to Potosi (the highest city in the world, at about 4500m or something like that). Jon, Phil, and Andrea did a tour of the cooperative silver mine in Potosi, while Ave and I had a lazy, relaxing morning and did odds-and-ends jobs. Potosi was cold! We then hopped on a bus to Uyuni.