Potosi - shop in the miner´s market

"The Mountain that Eats Men Alive"

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October 4th 2008
(Matt) -Sucre- We spent a few days in the pleasant spanish colonial town of Sucre. During our time there we visited Parque Cretácico a cement quarry where in 1994 employees uncovered 6000 dinosaur tracks on a vertical mudstone hillside (much to my disappointment the dinosaurs couldn´t walk up walls it was once flat but the land was pushed upwards by plate tectonics!). The park is now a minor ... read more

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Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and counter-coups. Comparatively democratic civilian rule was established in 1... ... read more