After returning to Santa Cruz we only had one night before we would fly to Sucre, the constitutional capital of Bolivia. We had decided to fly, as the road to Sucre has a bad reputation and so do the bus drivers! Plus it wasn't much more expensive and it was going to save us about 10 hours of sitting around and doing nothing. We arrived at the airport early so we could grab some breakfast before our flight, scheduled for around 10am. Once through security we not...

Santa Cruz de la Sierra was quite a surprise. It is the most populated city of Bolivia and one of the fastest growing in the world, despite Sucre being the constitutionally declared capital and La Paz being the location of the Government. It was immediately evident that this is where the country's most prosperous live. We knew this before we saw the Porsche, Jaguar and Mercedes dealerships. We had heard Santa Cruz is hot, but when we arrived on a Friday evening...