Dinosaur Tracks (Cal Orck'o) Sucre

Our mindset travelling south was to eventually get to Tupiza where we had booked a salt flats tour. After a surprisingly smooth overnight ride; for Bolivian standards, even the asphalt has many bumps, we got to Sucre with perfect weather. Sucre, a lot lower than La Paz was warmer during the day and night. I could wear jeans and a t-shirt at night …

... ! This afternoon we are going to make an effort to see something in Sucre besides bars and restaurants, and head off to see the dinosaur tracks just outside of town. Also, in exciting news, I think I will have a little bit more time than I thought ...

... Day in two days), take the Dino Truck to Cal Orck'o, a limestone quarry containing the world's largest fossilized dinosaur tracks on a 25.000 square meter wall. Apparently there's about 5000 impressions of dinosaur footprints, from 320 different animals ...

... hundreds of feet. Although the site required a little use of imagination, it was impressive. How often do you get to see dinosaur tracks?? From Sucre we headed to the mining town of Potosi for a night, which was a decent colonial-era town, but we ...

... day the guys were digging away and they came across footprints going vertically up the side of the quarry wall! Some of the longest continuous dinosaur tracks in the world are exposed in the approximately 200 m high and 500 m long quarry walls. They got ...

... up a visible sign of recent protests luckily for us it was all quiet now.  We decided to go and look at the dinosaur tracks that afternoon, we got on the dino truck equipped with a dinosaur head on the front and joined a lot of toursits.  We ...

... for over 1.5km and climbs in places to 150m (more than 5,000 huge footprints criss-cross the wall at the quarry). The dinosaur tracks' paleonthological bed date from 68 million yrs ago and belong to the upper cretaceous period, a time in which the ...

... that tried to bite me, but fortunately couldn't pierce my jeans). So it may be possible to survive. There are also impressive dinosaur tracks on a nearby quarry wall (prompting the initial creation of the park). So there we have it. Dinosaurs. What more ...

... The city has lots of good markets and a very nice town square. On our last day here we did a tour of the Worlds largest dinosaur tracks, which was pretty cool. We spent Sunday night, Monday night and all of Tuesday in Sucre and then headed for Cochabamba ...

... a lot of time getting coffee on the main square, going out and sleeping in. Iīve gone out to see a few thousand dinosaur tracks they found on the edge of town and this morning I went to see what was billed as the ugliest house in Bolivia ...

... in the 1800’s. We also went to see the world’s largest paleontological site. It is a massive limestone wall with dinosaur tracks from 65 million years ago. Some of the species include the Tyrannosaurus Rex and the HUGE Titanosaurus. We loved ...