To Colombia

I received a call from LAB (The Bolivia Airline) telling me that I can`t go on the flight I reserved, instead I had to go to Lima, spend a night there (they would pay for the hotel), and then take a flight to Bogotà the next morning, bummer, but as compensation, I was offered a free flight ticket in south America, not a bad deal after all, I chose a free flight from Caracas to Cochabamba.

At the airport there was a big press presence, it turned out that Evo Morales the new Bolivian president was going to arrive soon, back from his world tour, all the press was gathered around the VIP exit door, which was next to the internet cafe I was setting in, I got excited about seeing Mr Morales in person, and I had my camera ready, but he played a trick on the press and used a different exit, and when that became known, all the press ran somewhere seeking to catch him.

I have yet to have a LAB flight that left on time, and this time was no exception, the flight from Cochabamba left half an hour late, and the one from La Paz three hours late, we arrived at Lima at 3:00 , just four hours before the flight to Bogotà , after searching in vain for somebody from LAB, I decided that there was no point anyway, that it did not make sense to go to a hotel and back with so little time left, so I took a nap for a couple of hours on an improvised bunk in the dining area, then headed for the check in desks of Aviana (the Colombian airline), apparently I was not supposed to do it this way, LAB was supposed to take care of the check in process for me, but in the end I did get my boarding pass and I was told to hurry up to the plane, a lot of chaos followed, apparently I am not supposed to enter through the normal entrance to the gate, because my flight is a connection flight, finally they referred me to some side entrance, but when I got to the immigration desk, I did not have my immigration form anymore (why do they make you fill one if you are just in transit and you don`t plan to leave the airport), anyway I had just shown this form to the guard at the side door, so I got back to him and told him he did not give me back my form, he could not find it either, we searched for it for a while but neither of us had it, so the only explanation that I could think of is that he got mixed up and gave to another passenger, which turned out to be exactly what happened, luckily one of the ladies at the immigration desk noticed the form, and that it did not belong to the person carrying it, finally I was allowed to go through immigration, ran to the airplane that was being delayed waiting for me.

But in the end I arrived to Bogota with all my baggage and I guess that is what really matters.