Translation of decomposition in German

Once the rain stopped we continued to visit some other sites within the city, among them a popular Pagoda, which was not in the center. We took a cab there and enjoyed this beautiful place of worship.
The city seemed to be small but busy and many building were new. It looked like a third world country village with four and five star hotels. The infrastructure was still bad, but one could see development.
We than found out that a plane was leaving 3 hours later to the city of Calama (with the national airline), which was the closest airport to our destination. However, only one seat was available. That was really annoying.