Translation of raid in Spanish

On the drive into the city center we were a little shocked by the amount of motorcycles, by the pollution and stress in that city. After only two days in a small village we forgot how it was.
You don't speak Russian? It's not so easy to speak this. I think, my English isn't very strong at all. But I hope to improve once I have the chance to write someone whose mother language is English...
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.