It was four hour ride from Cochabamba to Bolivias smallest national park. We went through mountains, valleys, canyons and saw many dried rivers. Almost the whole way, the road was probably made by billions pebble stones! It was incredible :) though not so comfortable..
Torotoro town itself wasn't very charming, almost like from a horror movie where there is a village which has this secret that nobody talks about. Hardly any people around, empty streets, closed restaurants and abandon houses. We ate fried potatos and deep fried pancakes (buñuelos) for three days from the street because we couldn't find any open restaurants. Our alojamiento was half finished, leaning from the other side. Luckily everything else in Torotoro was amazing!
First day we walked around town and looked for people to join us for a tour to El Vergel. Huge canyon which made us feel really small! Landscape was amazing, I wonder how it would be in the rainy season? Now we walked along the dried river, green bits on the rocks (copper), looked for dinosaurs footprints. And I tell you, it was amazing!! In Colombia when we saw those fossils, I was speechless but now actually standing on 22m high sauropodo dinosaurs footprints.. Wow!! They really have walked on the same land what we are walking now!! Finished the day dipping ourselves on freezing cold river :)
Third day we hired a car and went to see Ciutad del Itas, cathedral caves. Also lot of rocks resembling turle, human, fish, elephant etc. forms. We were up in 3700m and the view was amazing (once again). There was some wall paintings as well to be seen. Probably the best part was our walk through natural caves, down to 118m. Some parts were so small and cramped that claustophobic would have had hard time in there. It was really challenging, slippery rocks and water everywhere. There was small lake, river and a waterfall inside the cave!! What a great day we had :)
