Chapter 78
Which describes the adventure of the dinosaurs and other amazing stories that are sure to astound and reward the reader.
Remember when a nickel would get you something? I personally don’t, but surely you know an oldtimer who would remind you such a time existed. That time is now in Bolivia. Half a dozen pastries for twenty cents. Two ice cream bars for a dime. It’s insanity. It’s like the twilight zone, a really good twilight zone.
Sucre is a good place to be. Aside from being dirt cheap, the town is nice, quiet, and clean. We slept in, had a big breakfast, then caught the noon dino-truck to Bolivia’s version of Jurassic Park. Turns out the local cement factory is one of the worlds largest archeological sites for dinosaurs. Part of the quarry, over 100 million years ago, was a dinosaur thoroughfare. Since then, it was a lake (which fossilized the footprints in basically cement) then the movement of the earth slowly worked the flat surface up to nearly vertical. The Bolivians, while extracting the cement from the mountain, found the footprints somewhere in the middle and viola, half of the quarry is now a Dinosaur park complete with café, tour guides, and life-size dinosaur sculptures.
Tourists pay 3 times what Bolivian’s pay, but we didn’t mind, it was still less than $4 to get inside. The footprints of over 300 species of dinosaur are viewable from a platform through a telescope pointed at the mountain side. Some of the corresponding species are represented on the grounds in surprising detail.
Remember when a nickel would get you something? I personally don’t, but surely you know an oldtimer who would remind you such a time existed. That time is now in Bolivia. Half a dozen pastries for twenty cents. Two ice cream bars for a dime. It’s insanity. It’s like the twilight zone, a really good twilight zone.
Sucre is a good place to be. Aside from being dirt cheap, the town is nice, quiet, and clean. We slept in, had a big breakfast, then caught the noon dino-truck to Bolivia’s version of Jurassic Park. Turns out the local cement factory is one of the worlds largest archeological sites for dinosaurs. Part of the quarry, over 100 million years ago, was a dinosaur thoroughfare. Since then, it was a lake (which fossilized the footprints in basically cement) then the movement of the earth slowly worked the flat surface up to nearly vertical. The Bolivians, while extracting the cement from the mountain, found the footprints somewhere in the middle and viola, half of the quarry is now a Dinosaur park complete with café, tour guides, and life-size dinosaur sculptures.
Tourists pay 3 times what Bolivian’s pay, but we didn’t mind, it was still less than $4 to get inside. The footprints of over 300 species of dinosaur are viewable from a platform through a telescope pointed at the mountain side. Some of the corresponding species are represented on the grounds in surprising detail.
Yay! Dinosaurs! (Amie's not as excited)
Look close, those footprints are over 130M years old!
Hi family and friends!
These dinos are really detailed!
I mean, every detail!
Amie liked this one because he eats ferns
The dinosaur shares the secret of their extinction with me
So lifelike! Gosh!
Amie scores some free wifi from the hotel roof
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