Sucre - Dinosaurs and Horseriding!

We took the 3 hour bus journey from Potosi to the Bolivian capital, Sucre. We are due to stay here for a couple of days so we had some time to explore the city and go to the many shops selling goods for the tourists!

We did a city tour with a guide - the colonial section of Sucre is known as the White City as all the buildings have to be white. We went to the dinosaur walk. It is a huge outdoor museum with lifesize dinosaur models. They also had a wall where they have found dinosaur footprints on. They were slightly too far away to get a decent picture (we had to view them through binoculars!!)We carried on with the city tour and went to the main park in Sucre. It was desgined to look like a mini Paris - complete with Eiffel Tower! We also went around a massive food market.

On our final day in Sucre me, Kate, Jimmy, Yvonne & Fionnuala went horseriding. It was the first time that Jimmy & Fionnuala had been on a horse and they looked petrified when they first got on! It didn´t take long before they were both looking a little less scared! We rode for about 3 hours before stopping for lunch and a swim in one of the waterfalls, which was bliss after riding in the heat! We spent another 2 hours riding back to the city. Yvonne´s horse decided to eat some hay that a women was drying on the side of the road - the horse looked so funny that it had us in hysterics!!!

As it was Jimmy, Fionnuala & Yvonnes´ last night with us, we went out to the local nightclub - Mitos and partied the night away (well til 4am when the place shut!!) It was a great way to say goodbye to the guys, who left the following morning at 9am!

Later that day, we left to go to the airport to take the short (20 minute flight) to Santa Cruz. We arrived there on a sunny, very humid day! We didn´t do much in Santa Cruz (mainly due to the fact that we were there over the weekend and things were closed and that it was very hot)!