Super Long bus journey to Santa Cruz, Bolivia

We were in good spirits after our stop in Asuncion despite the heat and were excited to be going to Bolivia... until our bus turned up.



We would rather have had this NASA bus sent from space as ours proceeded to break down numerous times in the middle of the night as well as in the day during our 28 hour journey. Here is one of the times our bus broke down:



Not only this but the super air conditioning dripped constantly on almost everyone on board but particularly Jodie which I won´t say much about- only that she wasn´t best pleased!

Anyway we made it through the border getting our passport stamped this time which was a relief and managed to get a taxi to the Hotel Italia which turned out to be very nice.

The next day we explored Santa Cruz and decided to take a trip to the zoo. We were hoping to see Sloths but some how they seemed to have hatched an escape plan and were nowhere to be seen. We saw plenty of other animals although a few that seemed a tad cooped up to say the least which was a bit sad!