This day was a lowlight of the trip! We arrived at Sucre airport at 9:30am for a 35 minute flight to Santa Cruz. The airport is tiny and the runway is short, so planes need good visibility to land. Unfortunately the cloud hung low for most of the day. So we were stuck there for hours and hours waiting for our plane to come in. The only fun was playing cards all day! Finally at around 6pm we were informed that our flight was cancelled. Great!!! We were given the option of free accommodation in Santa Cruz (with the possibility of a repeat the next day) or a flight to La Paz (in the wrong direction) with onward flight to Santa Cruz. We opted for the latter.
We got to La Paz just around 7pm and they would not let us on the connecting flight to S Cruz as it was full. The next plane was delayed, and took off just before 11pm. We finally arrived in a hot, sticky S Cruz just before midnight. All our bags had arrived except for the rucksack of my room mate. After a lot of tears and batting of eyelids etc. at a young, helpful Bolivian guy, he eventually searched the outgoing plane to Miami and found it in the hold. Lots of cheers, clapping and hugs from us all at S Cruz airport.
What a day. Our room was around 30c at 3am. What a change from a few days ago.
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