Adventures in Torotoro (Part 1)

Hi everyone! This past week has been the most exciting and exhausting week yet in our Bolivian travels!  The Locklins, along with our Aunt Doris, Aunt Ruth, Uncle David, and cousins Valeria and David, traveled to a small town, well-known for its touristic attractions, called Torotoro. Our group numbered nine people, so we had to hire a minibus to drive us for six hours over the road twisting on and on past hills covered with coarse shrubbery and rocks, through a never-ending valley, and finally to the tops of mountains, where we saw Torotoro nestled. It was long past sunset when we arrived. 

Ready to go!

A couple of pics of the scenery along the way.

If we felt tired that night though, it was nothing compared to what we felt the next day! The touristic attractions surrounding Torotoro are a breath-taking part of nature, shown by exploring caverns and taking long hikes! We spent our first day doing just that. We hiked all morning; our guide showing us many plants of medical use and faded paintings thousands of years old.

These mountain faces have slowly eroded, leaving  countless layers of rock exposed.

 It's between these types of shelves that thousands of fossilized dinosaur footprints have 

been found. Torotoro is well-known mostly because of these amazing discoveries.

During our entire hike we walked through the

 Ciudad de Ita, the City of Rock. This picture shows a portion of it. 

Many of the rocks appear shaped

like animals due to erosion by water.

These caves are amazingly beautiful.