Up at 8am again (definatly lying in tomorrow) had breakfast, had a little wonder around to get snacks for the taxi.

Taxi arrived at 10am and we drove to Sucre (Thomas, Yumi and Yvonne are still with us but the Austrian boys have now headed to La Paz)! The taxi driver was bombing it through the mountains but he knew the roads well - if a dodgy bit of road was approaching he would avoid it ages before! 3.5 hours later we arrived at our hostel! We all had private rooms and it was lovely! We had a double bed (no bunk beds - yay!) and a lovely little bathroom.

Sucre (population 247,300 in 2006) is the constitutional capital of Bolivia and the capital of the department of Chuquisaca. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of 2750m (9,000 ft). This relatively high altitude gives the city a cool temperate climate year-round.

We had read in the guide book that there was a dinosaur theme park so we headed out to catch a bus to visit! We arrived at a concrete quarry (a bit confused!) it wasn´t a theme park at all but is a small mountain of Cal Orck'o and is home to the world's largest collection of dinosaur tracks. There are about 5,000 impressions of dinosaur footprints from at least 250 different dinosaurs that are embedded on a gigantic, near-vertical limestone rock.

We stopped in the cafe to grab some food and drink and it started pi**ing down, it didnt look like it was going to stop! We ran to a room with a dinosaur skeleton in and waited for a guide (the rain now turned to hail!) The guide arrived and spoke quite good english except after every sentence he would say ´no´as you can imagine I could not contain my laughter and we were all wetting ourselves, the guide was laughing too but i dont think he knew we were laughing at him! The rain eased off a little so we headed outside to see the wall!

The dinosaur footprints were first discovered in 1994 by workers from the local Sucre cement factory. When the cement workers were clearing the grounds, they uncovered a nearly vertical limestone face bearing thousands of dinosaur footprints.

The footprints are scattered across a gigantic, greyish rock covering about 25,000 square meters (about the size of several soccer fields) and are about 100 meters high. At first the prints just look like holes in the rock. But, after you study them for a while, you'll see the clear footprints of many different sizes running in long lines across the surface of the rock. For, example, some of the dinosaur footprints you'll see are of Tyrannosaurus (T-Rex), Brontosaurus, and Triceratops.

Experts believe the footprints in the rocks date back some 60 million years, which is before the Andes were formed. Supposedly, there was a lake here surrounded by a forest and dinosaurs would have trudged through the mud in the forest toward the lake in search of water. Before the tracks had a chance to disappear, the tracks would have been covered by sediment, which settled over the mud and preserved the footprints.

It is the most amazing discovery of dinosaur footprints ever and the goverment in Surce don´t really care about it. They refuse to pay to preserve the area and it is still used ad a concrete quarry!

We jumped back on the bus we were all absolutly drenched and headed back to the hostel to dry off. The rain showed no signs of stopping so the boys (Joe, Craig and Thomas) headed out to get a chinese takeaway and some wine! We ate, drank and headed to bed!