A quick trip to Sucre, Bolivia

Wanting to break up our trip between La Paz to Uyuni, we decided to do a quick stop over in Sucre. Located in the heart of Bolivia, Sucre is a beautiful little colonial city and apparently known as the “Jewel of South America¨. I don´t know if we would have called it that ourselves, but it certainly was a nice clean little town. A pleasant break from the hustle and bustle of busy, crazy, polluted La Paz.

We took some leisurely strolls through the old town part of the city, which is a collection of well-conserved buildings from the 18th and 19th century. It was of little surprise to us to find out that Sucre is yet another in a line of UNESCO World Heritage Sites that we have visited.

We decided to only spend a day and a half there but we still took the time to go on a unique little tour....Just on the outskirts of Sucre are a large collection of Dinosaur Tracks (called - Cal Orck’o). They were discovered in an active limestone quarry in 1994 and I´m pretty sure that the Sucre government began building a tourist site there about a month later !!

I have to admit though, it was impressive...this site is reportedly the largest collection of dinosaur tracks in the world with the footprints belonging to a staggering variety of dinosaurs (over 330 species) !!

Unfortunately to protect the tracks we weren´t allowed to get very close, so to ensure that us tourists don´t get completely bored just staring at a large wall, in the surrounding park area they have constructed a number of life sized dinosaurs who walked the tracks. Some were massive and quite impressive.

A great little sidetrack before heading off to Uyuni the next morning bright and early !!

Here´s a little slideshow of our time in Sucre....

If you can´t see them properly than click on the link here - Sucre