Having made my way up the hill to see the dinosaur steps at Cal Orck'o I found myself in front of a closed museum door. As so often before; I really need to work on my travel itineraries.

Now I had come to understand that even without the museum offering some context information you would be able to see the site. I was standing at the museum gate on a platform and all I could see were plenty of trucks driving in and out in what to me looked like a usual quarry, a pretty busy one at that.

I was about to climb the fence hoping to get a better view of those dinosaur steps around the corner on the quarry edge (picture). But then a local teen intervened and was so kind to give me a short tour of the side. Indeed, I was already seeing a major part of the site from where I was standing. The seemingly random holes I was seeing on the other side of the quarry were those fabled dinosaur steps. Originally, the steps had been on the ground, but tectonic shifts had turned this 73 degrees upwards. The footprints were found due to work in the quarry.

OUV

Looking back millions of years to see the footprint of dinosaurs is plain amazing. So I would encourage you to make the small detour if you happen to be in Sucre anyhow. However, as long as the site is used as an active quarry I doubt that it stands any change of inscription.

In addition based on Els comments IUCN doesn't like these sites. Not sure why. I am sure, though, that the concrete factory was still in operation end of 2017.

The museum itself seems more of a dinosaur park, but may give you a fuller picture of the site.

Getting There

There is a bus running up the hill. I was not able to find the proper bus stop in the city center, though, and eventually settled on taking a cab. The site itself is a quick visit, so I had the cabbie wait for me for the return ride back to Sucre. Prices were very reasonable.

Getting Away

See my comments on Sucre. I will always fondly remember the drive to the airport of Sucre in the highlands.