I get up fairly early to be ready in time. We start to fill the car and although it's an 8 seater the little space for luggage is too little. We'll use just one of the jump seats and they'll sit four on the back row, hey, this is Bolivia and we could probably transport 12 people in it. At 11 o'clock we pick up Angelica and Beatriz go to the school to get their ID card and we're off. Akihiro has to cramp into the third row, with the food basket and my heavy photo bag falling on him in every curve... Aya doesn't allow for him to complain ;-)
Once again I get stopped by a cop in Santa Cruz de la Sierra that says there's a sticker missing. After a chat with him, he let's us go without a fine of 280 Bs. Lucky? Not really as at Avis they say it's all ok, there is no such sticker anymore and they hand us a fake receipt of a fine of 20 Bs. Just show it, the guy tells us.
We have lunch at a restaurant in Santa Cruz with a buffet and then head for Samaipata again. The road gets worse every year it seems and definitively feels like it. The drive is funny as Aya and her mother keep giving their father/husband a hard time – for once I'm off the hook. Just after 5 pm we arrive, the clouds have opened and there's sunshine. As usual again, we try the Cabañas Traudi and get a great cabin for 7 (45USD). For the kids it's great as it has some tiny rooms under the roof. As those who have been to Samaipata know, we'll go to Cafe Latina for dinner. Till then the girls have to do homework.
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