We arrived in Sucre after taking a lovely and seemingly luxurious overnight bus from Cochabamba to Sucre.We arrived at our pre-booked hotel but were too early to check in and had to wait around.We walked around town to try and get some breakfast but the streets were deserted as it was Sunday and 8am.This also meant that absolutely nothing was open so we sat in the hotel watching TV in the common room and reading books.We had breakfast at the hotel and then checked into the room at about 10am.We didn't leave the room for another 4 hours after discovering cable TV.We went out for snacks and returned for an evening of watching TV.

We got up the next day and watched part of Home Alone 2 and feeling very Christmassy.We tried to go and see the Dinosaur footprints but apparently it was too cold in the morning so we decided to go in the afternoon.The morning was again spent appreciating TV in English.We had an excellent, cheap veggie lunch and then went to get the Dino Truck from the Plaza.

We arrived at the Cretaceous Park and got a guided tour in English around the giant scale models of the Dinosaurs that left the footprints and a few others thrown in for good measure.One of these token models was a Pterodactyl (The flying one!) which the guide said flew long distances from continent to continent.The obnoxious English 18-30s holiday maker asked a reasonably sensible question, to the shock of the rest of the group; "How do you know that?", he hoped for an answer maybe to do with morphology, DNA or fossils but the Guide answered "Walking With Dinosaurs, BBC LONDON".Sniggering was inevitable.We stopped listening to the tour as most of the information he was spouting was a little bit wrong.

It was as we drifted away that we became models for a photo with a lot of school girls.The old man teacher with a very old camera and detachable flash (possibly recovered as a fossil with the footprints) got very excited as he shoved us into the picture and flashed away.We rejoined the group to stare at the gigantic wall full of dinosaur footprints.They were interesting but it was strange to watch them whilst explosives and huge diggers were rumbling around the active cement works.It was these cement works that originally discovered the prints and only didn't destroy them because there was Magnesium in the rock!

We drifted away from the group as we noticed that the Giant Brontosaurus model had an equally giant vahines modeled onto its undercarriage.We took a photo to show everyone what a dinosaur's vahines actually looks like.We then degenerated further and went to enjoy ourselves in the children's play park before being first back onto the Dino Truck, ready to return to our wonderful TV.

Before TV time we went out for dinner and Charlie ate at a Chinese place, where a strange Arnie featured man was laughing in a sinster way at the violent episodes in Back to the Future II.He tried to make eye-contact with us but we stared at the table and Lisa urged Charlie to gobble his noodles faster.We paid and left in a very rushed manner incase he tried to speak to us.We retreated to our room picked up our lovely smelling clean laundry on the way and settled down to watch TV again.

Final Thoughts: The Cretaceous Park was actually well run and felt like a run-down theme park at a fading seaside resort, which is highly excellent for Bolivia.Sucre was a pretty colonial town but its best feature was cable TV.We had been in the jungle for a month!

Mark out of 10: 6

Next Time.............. Potosi