Sucre, Bolivia

I travelled to Sucre to meet a fellow INSEAD classmate, Carlos. Apart from being incredibly good-natured about my announcement that the school had awarded me a scholarship when he was facing funding problems, he turned out to be a great tour guide.

Close to Sucre there are some petrified dinosaur footprints and a museum. The footprints were discovered by the cement firm that Carlos worked for and would have been turned into paving if the wall had not had a too-high magnesium content. Happily, the wall (which used to be a floor until some tectonic plate movement changed things around) is now open to visitors and an outdoor museum with models of the dinosaurs has opened in recent years. There are over 300 different types of dinosaur footprint preserved here which have allowed scientists an insight into how the creatures moved. It´s also pretty impressive to see footprints made hundreds of millions of years ago of course.