November 2nd to 5th
(A lot of my pictures were lost because of an SD card accident, I’ll publish this post like this and add photos later if I manage to get them back)
On November 2nd, I arrived to Cochabamba but didn’t stay there; I took right away a bus to the town of Toro Toro. I arrived a little before noon, and was able to start visiting the park of the same name in the afternoon. It has fossilized dinosaur tracks! They are the reason I went all the way there.
Several species of dinosaurs came around the area and left tracks in the mud, just before the Yucatan meteor (that created the cenotes) that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. The meteor impact was followed by a sediment deposition that fossilized the tracks.
There are indeed impressive.
On November the 3rd, I visited another part of the park, some curious rock formations, and then caves.
That evening I took a bus back to Cochabamba, from where I wanted to continue to Sucre with a night bus. I arrived to Cochabamba at 9:20pm, 10 minutes before the last buses to Sucre. Inside the terminal, a Bolivian guy tells me “Sucre? Come with me.” I followed him, and once at the bus, 2 other Bolivian passengers were there, but the guy tells us “The bus is full, but there is a mattress here in the trunk, there is space for the 3 of you, you’ll be confortable. The other driver, who doesn’t drive, sleeps right next to it”. After looking at each other a bit skeptical, and talking, the 2 other guys and I accepted. We had to go out of the terminal to take the bus outside, this being illegal. So I spent the night in the trunk of a bus. It was indeed more confortable, even better than a seat, because I was fully lying down, horizontally.
In the trunk
In the trunk
On Saturday November the 4th, I walked around the cute town of Sucre.
On Sunday the 5th, I took a bus to Potosi, and walked around the city in the afternoon.
I then took a bus to Tupiza, south of the country. I’ll tell you about it next time.