Mathias stayed in Potosà to work in the mine and me, Bryony, Stacey and Anita (who joined us in Uyuni) carried on to Sucre.
Sucre is a very pretty small city with a nice laid back vibe and a great market. Had a nice few days there just exploring the city. There's also a huge rock face of dinosaur footprints they uncovered in a quarry just outside of town, so checked them out too.
Our little group split after Sucre and I got on a night bus to Cochabamba (which arrived 2 hours early at 4am - ideal) and then got straight on another bus to go to Toro Toro national park. That was a fun journey: a very bumpy 5 hours in a minivan on an occasionally cobbled road. The landscape was impressive though, characterised by tectonic up throws of concertinaed rock.
Toro Toro is a small town with big predecessors: welcome to the Land of Dinosaurs!
Toro Toro is little more than a sleepy village and the national park still not very well known. They're trying to raise its profile however (and it's mighty Dino lineage does deserve the attention) and Toro Toro had the feel of a place gearing up for a lot more people than were currently there. I met up with a Kiwi girl and an English-Dutch couple on the bus and we spent a few days together touring the area. It's not a big park and 2 full days was enough to see the main attractions: the primary draw being the abundance of dinosaur footprints that litter the area.
Toro Toro is little more than a sleepy village and the national park still not very well known. They're trying to raise its profile however (and it's mighty Dino lineage does deserve the attention) and Toro Toro had the feel of a place gearing up for a lot more people than were currently there. I met up with a Kiwi girl and an English-Dutch couple on the bus and we spent a few days together touring the area. It's not a big park and 2 full days was enough to see the main attractions: the primary draw being the abundance of dinosaur footprints that litter the area.
You have to take a guide to enter the park but the prices were cheap and the guides friendly. We went on a short hike to a big gorge on our first day, passing by multiple sets of dino prints of different shapes and sizes, a few ancient cave paintings and enjoying a swim and a waterfall shower down in the canyon.
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On day 2 we explored some big cathedral shaped caverns with beautiful blends of red and orange in the rock, and then went underground for a few hours, into a deep limestone cave resplendent with numerous stalactites and stalagmites and other weird and wonderful rock formations. It was a squeeze too, no qualms about sending tourists into tight, claustrophobic spots.
And, of course, we passed by numerous dino prints.
It may just have been the imagination of our guide in particular, but everywhere we looked, there was an animal to be seen somewhere in the rock...
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