We've been in Santa Cruz now for about 4 days. It took about 15 hours on the overnight bus from Sucre to get here, got a couple of flat tyres during the night but generally the journey was ok - I think our tolerance to sleeping on buses is increasing (we've had alot of practice so far). Santa Cruz, like Sucre, is a pretty city with a humungous main square - which is good for sitting with ice-creams and watching the world go by. The climate is quite different to the last few places we've been to - it's BOILING here! We haven't done huge amounts, although we did go to this brilliant water park on the weekend with a couple of others from our hostel! Great water slides and stuff. Been to the markets and 'pink' Cathedral here too. We're staying in a great hostel (a little pricier than we're used to at 3 pounds 50 a night) but it's got a beautiful courtyard thats's like a jungle (with some hammocks to relax in) - but best of all it has a couple of toucans hopping about within it! It's great. We leave tomorrow for our 20 hour bus journey to the Brazilian border - joy. Still, from there we'll hopefully start a tour of the Pantanal swampland which we hear is meant to be amazing!