Although La Paz is the larger city Sucre is the oficial capital of Bolivia. Sucre is a tiny little town that was given UNISCO World heritage status due to its intense concentration of old colonial architecture. We decided to visit on our way to Uyuni to break up the travels and whilst looking around to decide what to do we were intrested to find out that about half an hour outside town there is a cement works that holds over 6000 individual fossilised dinosaurfootprints. This is the world's largest collection of preserved tracks.

We took the organised transport out to the brand new visitors centre which is perched on top of a cliff overlooking both the tracks and the cement works. We paid our way in plus the additional cover charge to take pictures in the place and were told that we would be picked up in 2 hours. We were hoping to get up close to these fossilised tracks but as it turned out we would have to view them from the viewing platform where you could spend a couple of extra Bolivianos using the thoughtfully placed binoculars!

The dinosaur tracks appeared appear to run vertically up a wall of the quarry. This wall was originally the bed of a prehistoric lake and had shifted into its present vertical position through tectonic activity. We could clearly see tracks from Diplodocus, Tricerotops, Tyranasurus and smaller un-named and less famous visitors. Our guide explained the best he could as we looked around the museum and we were left to our own devices for the remaining one and a half hours to entertain ourselves.

Returning to town we had a look around the old centre and decided that we would treat ourselves to a slap up feast at the local French bistro. Two very nice courses washed down with local beers, the kind of meal you would pay handsomely for at home for the grand total of 8 pounds including tip! Bargain!

Next stop the Potosí and the silver mines….