Translation of sadden in Spanish

He was asking the doormen to let us and our friends from Holland in, and so they did. In addition, the guy we met was paying our entrance or got us a free entrance. We do not know and probably never will.
It must have taken them years and ten's of thousands of workers to accomplish the tasks of constructing such spectacular compounds. We took many pictures and walked back to the taxi.
Well, being the first time in South America, especially Peru, gives you a little shock in the first few hours. Already at the airport everybody wants something ($$$) from you