Denver the last

After the mine visit in potosi, we spent a further two days in the city, one day we climbed up an old church spire which afforded us panoramic views of the city and surrounding mountains.

Upon leaving Potosi we headed to Sucre the Judicial capital of Bolivia, the main square had some beautiful architecture and some of the most important buildings in Bolivian history, the liberty house where the Bolivian independence documents where signed over 400 years ago. Whilst in Sucre we visited a dinosaur park, a 300m wall which contained over 5000 fossilised dinosaur footprints, belonging to 4 different types of dinosaur, although now vertical, the wall had once been the floor of a swamp, and it is thought all the fossils on show where preserved from the same day!

After sucre we took an overnight bus to Cochabamba, a nice little city with very few things to do. The main attraction here is a huge statue of Christ, bigger than the one in Rio, however after catching a cable car to the foot of it we realised how tacky it seemed on comparison, in the base of the statue a souvenir shop, and what we thought memorial plaques but on closer inspection we realised they where infact adverts for local businesses. You could also climb up the inside of the statue and view out of the arms, I'm surprised they hadn't put view points outbid the statues eyes and sell it as seeing through the eyes of Jesus!

From Cochabamba we travelled to Oruro, not that there was much there! We visited a mining museum, that was based in am old working mine, it housed equipment that had been used and a number of different Tio's. Oruro host Bolivia's equivalent of carnival, which the town appeared to be getting ready for, cleaning away last years decorations ready for the new ones to be put in place!