We are having a memorable lunch overlooking the main square in Sucre. Lawrence got Chorizo Chuquisaqueño (sausage from this area). Claudia got picante de lengua(spicy cow tongue). The kids got chicken cordon bleu and pork chops. We all enjoyed our food mucho!! Delicious!
Picture this massive cliff covered with dinosaur tracks, to be precise 5055 tracks of at least 8 species. This is what you see in the Cretaceous Park. The original name for this park is Cal Orck'o (in Quechua it means limestone cliff.) The cliff is 1500 meters long and 110 meters high.
The park has also life size replicas of dinosaurs in South America. One of the most outstanding is titanosaurus, the largest replica of the world. The kids loved seeing the carnotaur, the ankylosaurus, and others. Victoria will write later about a tour we took to get a closer look at the tracks.
My mom and I took a tour to see the dinosaur tracks up close. There was a steep, narrow way leading downward. We stopped on the way and the guide explained the different kinds of tracks. There were differences between carnivores and herbivores. We could get up to 3 meters close to the huge cliff. We saw mostly herbivore tracks, which looked like circles. The there eight sets ofrece tracks going in the same direction through the whole cliff!
The first picture shows the cliff. The second shows the footprints of Titanosaurus up close. This was just an amazing experience!
The translation is the House of Liberty. This house is the equivalent to Indepence Hall in Philadelphia, which we happened to visit early this year. This beautiful old building was a jesuit mision built in 1592. Later it housed one of the oldest universities in the Americas, la Universidad de San Francisco Xavier. The house was also one of the sites of the first cry of liberty. But most of all it's impotant because Bolivia's Declaration of Independence was signed here!
The Hall, where the declaration was signed, was a chapel with beautiful carved furniture and the pictures of Bolivar, Sucre, and Ballivian. Other exhibits include pictures and personal artifacts of Bolivia's presidents, some pictures of the founding fathers and heroes.
Sucre is the city where Bolivia was born. It was established on Sept. 29, 1538. Sucre is the site for the first cry of liberty in the Américas in 1809. The Bolivian Declaration of Independence was signed here on August 6, 1825. This city was named La Plata first, and later Sucre after Bolivia's second president Jose Antonio de Sucre. Today this city is the judicial capital of Bolivia.
Today we are leaving Cochabamba. It was very sad to say bye to my wonderful mom. She is an amazing and godly woman. We just loved spending these two months with her, and will miss her terribly.
Globos (balloons) in Spanish is a fun restaurant. We went there to eat ice cream and play in the huge playground. We had fun times playing hide-and-seek, and we laughed and played till we were very tired. My chocolate ice cream had a lot of whipped cream. It was delicious! The boys' ice cream was really cool. Look at the pictures.
