Monday 23/7 - AREQUIPA
Dinosaur Footprints in Querulpa
This morning I took the microbus to the bus terminal, and then the Immaculada Conception 9:15AM bus with destination Aplao. After three hours, the bus driver dropped me along the road in Querulpa.
I thought I would have to ask and search for the dinosaur footprints...
Instead, I found a kind of Disneyland with two gigantic dinosaur models, and finally also the famous footprints.
It gave me a very special feeling to be at this historic place, near to these huge footprints!
Some literature about these footprints:
http://dinohuella2.free.fr/querulpa.htm
http://app.pan.pl/archive/published/app57/app20100119.pdf
Dinosaur Footprints in Querulpa
This morning I took the microbus to the bus terminal, and then the Immaculada Conception 9:15AM bus with destination Aplao. After three hours, the bus driver dropped me along the road in Querulpa.
I thought I would have to ask and search for the dinosaur footprints...
Instead, I found a kind of Disneyland with two gigantic dinosaur models, and finally also the famous footprints.
It gave me a very special feeling to be at this historic place, near to these huge footprints!
The bus dropped my here. Right in front of the mountain.
Not exactly what I expected.
This one (Diplodocus?) looks very kind.
The second model is so cute too (Tyranosaurus?).
After klimbing a steep path for 15 minutes it becomes more interesting.
Best marked footprints,
unfortunately observed with vertical light (it was 12:30PM).
The whole scenery decoded (not by me).
Some literature about these footprints:
http://dinohuella2.free.fr/querulpa.htm
http://app.pan.pl/archive/published/app57/app20100119.pdf
View on the green Rio Colca valley, and the desert behind
(as seen from the footprints area).
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Interressant ces traces, la doc un peu longue pour moi,à lire pendant les vacances! C'est pas la foule qui t'as fait perdre du temps!!
ReplyDeleteje préfère la superbe vue sur la vallée.
a+++
Salut michel, je vois que tu envisages de passer par la Paz, c'est un passage mythique et des plus spectaculaire, j'espère que tu nous feras partager ça!!!!
ReplyDeletebonne route
Cc michel, pas de nouvelles? tu dois te faire dorer la pillule au soleil sur la presqu'île, j'espère que tu va nous faire de belles photos du lac Titicaca.....
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