Sunday 27th April
We spent the morning wandering around Sucre including a stop for yummy breakfast at Joyride cafe, and then we wandered down to Parque Bolivar to check out what was happening - kids buzzing around in cool little motorised cars it turned out, which made Andrew wish he was a little kid again! Again, we noticed the weird phenomenom of the bottoms of all the tree trunks painted white - every tree in all the major parks in all the big cities we have been in have their trunks painted - why, we have no idea, but it sure does look funny!
At 1330 we caught a taxi out to the airport (a VERY small airport for supposedly the second most important city in the country, even smaller than Napier airport), and took a flight to Santa Cruz at 1630. The airport in Santa Cruz is quite a way outside the city so it was about 1830 by the time we got to our hotel in the city centre. Being Sunday night, not much was open, so our options were pretty limited for dinner. We settled for some OK food at a fairly expensive cafe on the corner of the plaza, and then went to Picolo's (across the road from our hotel and like Valentine's Restaurant on drugs) for dessert - ummm, yum choc mud cake!
After dinner we came across an art gallery which had a really good photography exhibition on. There were several photographers with photos from the past year showing flooding (and the results of) in the Amazon Basin demonstrations in Sucre and Santa Cruz, general people photos and even a few rally cars!
It is very muggy and hot here in Santa Cruz (duh - we're in the Amazon Basin now!) so we are constantly slick with sweat - ummmm, yummy (not).
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