Tuesday 21 October 2008

24 hours in Santa Cruz

At about 9am, the night train (2 carriages long) arrived into Santa Cruz. This is Bolivia's largest city and we've had a free day to spend at our leisure. After going through emails and updating parts of the blog, Chris and I set off to explore the city and see what we could get for our 12 bolivianos to the £1.

We had a lovely afternoon looking around the streets and we came across a lake with some pedalos on them, so we just had to have a go.
On the way back though, we could not find the hotel, but after a while some sights and shops started to look familiar and we finally made it back.
Tomorrow we're getting our first internal flight to Sucre, and according to our guide book, we'll be landing in the highest airport in the world. (but, according to google it's not!!!) In Sucre we should be able to Mountain bike down the most dangerous road in the world and also go and see the famous Silver mines. The mountain biking will either bring Chris and I home, or we'll have some good photos!!!! Just found out this is in La Paz, so another week to wait.

1 comment:

mum and dad said...

Your bound to have a sat nat amongest all that kit you took with you. I know I gave you the kit for bicycles. Oh and don't forget to check if the bike has brakes that work and a gel saddle for all those bumps.