Friday 7th April 2017
Sucre, Bolivia
Started off in the old part of town at Plaza 25 de Mayo - gorgeous cobbled courtyard surrounded
by covered walkway, church, old government building and a small colourful
textile market. Then on to a massive indoor market,
Mercado Rodriguez, where all sorts sold -
fruit, veg, miscellaneous thingies and every type of meat/offal from various
animals. The bull’s penis soup is reportedly the
best bull’s penis available in the best market in Bolivia. I passed the opportunity….
Lunch was at el Huerte restaurant, a place run by friends of
Fernando, so he joined us gratis. We sat out in the back garden in the
scorching sun, sheltering under umbrellas. Iain had a juice with fruit from the
Amazon region, rest had cold beer. Again, lovely soup, salad, fillet mignon and
tiramisu. Yummy.
With our bellies completely full, we then staggered around the
Parque Cretacico Dinosaur museum, located next to a concrete factory. Back in
the 1950s, the limestone cliff was being sliced until they reached a section
which was worse than useless to concrete manufacture. So they left the sliced
mountain and a couple of years later the erosion revealed thousands of dinosaur
footprints. This would originally have been horizontal land with dinosaurs
going to a water hole about 68 million years ago. In particular, footprints of
carnivores, herbivores, pterosaurs, and doyouthinkhe saurus.
We then finished off by returning to town to a convent/school
which allowed access to its undulating roof, bell towers and fabulous views
over Sucre.
Collected laundry – cost 12B per
kilo – 60B paid (about £7) for 5 kilos washed, dried and folded – a bargain and
a joy to have clothes available. Anything hand washed didn’t dry.
Celebrated with rum and a few beers in the hotel
courtyard.
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