I love dinosaurs. I've been hooked since The Land Before Time. I watched the making of Jurassic Park when I was little and got so terrified my Mom wouldn't let me see it at the cinema, a trauma I still carry with me today.
40 minutes out of the city of Sucre lies El Parque Cretavcio where you can see over 5000 real life dinosaur tracks fossilised in the earth. They were discovered by a cement factory which still functions nearby.
The park itself mounted high on a hill overlooks the wall of prints which would have been the marshland of the dinosaurs. Dinosaur sculptures are accompanied by the sounds of the beasts transporting the child in you back in time. There is also a museum and play area and the park boasts one of the worlds largest sculptures, a replica of Titanosaurus. It is also the largest paleontological site in the world.
Fellow backpackers told me they found it boring and it is true you could do the whole park in 20 minutes, but with Walking with Dinosaurs playing on a loop (in English!) in the cinema and plastic models to mount I could have stayed there all day!
The dinosaur phone booths dotted around town got us pretty excited too!
40 minutes out of the city of Sucre lies El Parque Cretavcio where you can see over 5000 real life dinosaur tracks fossilised in the earth. They were discovered by a cement factory which still functions nearby.
The park itself mounted high on a hill overlooks the wall of prints which would have been the marshland of the dinosaurs. Dinosaur sculptures are accompanied by the sounds of the beasts transporting the child in you back in time. There is also a museum and play area and the park boasts one of the worlds largest sculptures, a replica of Titanosaurus. It is also the largest paleontological site in the world.
Fellow backpackers told me they found it boring and it is true you could do the whole park in 20 minutes, but with Walking with Dinosaurs playing on a loop (in English!) in the cinema and plastic models to mount I could have stayed there all day!
The dinosaur phone booths dotted around town got us pretty excited too!
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