22nd - 24th August - Copacabana, Bolivia
Copacabana is a great little place nestled on the edge of Lake Titicaca. Lots of brightly coloured buildings, funky eating and drinking holes and seagulls - but still quite different from Dartmouth!
We had a couple of days here pottering about - a great climb up a mountain to a Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary, to have an even better view of the lake than we got at Puno and then a day walking around Isla del Sol which was even more stunning. The island is where the Incas believed the sun was created, so is an important pilgrimage site as well as tourist trip. The boat out to the island takes a couple of hours (although it doesn´t look very far away!) and the journey out was beautiful. The lake is immense and as I said before - so blue!!
The walk was fairly easy going after our Inca exploits before - although I can still tell there´s a lot less oxygen about!! The views of the lake and surrounding snowcapped mountains with bright blue sky were totally lush so we continued building our collection of stunning views that photos just don´t do justice to!!
We also checked out Daise and Steve´s mate´s bar - v. funky joint (Nemo´s) where we whiled away several plesant hours supping fine Bolivian lager. Unfortunately he was away while we were about so we are still yet to meet the illusive Jan the Man!
Moving on (although we could easily have spent more days chilling in Copacabana) we caught the bus today to La Paz. The journey is now part of our unusual bus rides category , not for being dropped off in the middle of nowhere, having mad locals stroking James' body hair, hideous local kareoke, sheer drop offs but for the fact we all had to pile off to allow the bus to be punted across Lake Titicaca on a few planks of wood while we were herded across in a very small, ancient boat with water gushing in through the sides! Not scary- just interesting!
Off to mountain bike down "the world's most dangerous road" tomorrow.......according to Daisy´s mate, Tammy, we are likely to pooh our pants! Bad luck James - just when you thought you were over those little mishaps!!
We had a couple of days here pottering about - a great climb up a mountain to a Catholic shrine to the Virgin Mary, to have an even better view of the lake than we got at Puno and then a day walking around Isla del Sol which was even more stunning. The island is where the Incas believed the sun was created, so is an important pilgrimage site as well as tourist trip. The boat out to the island takes a couple of hours (although it doesn´t look very far away!) and the journey out was beautiful. The lake is immense and as I said before - so blue!!
The walk was fairly easy going after our Inca exploits before - although I can still tell there´s a lot less oxygen about!! The views of the lake and surrounding snowcapped mountains with bright blue sky were totally lush so we continued building our collection of stunning views that photos just don´t do justice to!!
We also checked out Daise and Steve´s mate´s bar - v. funky joint (Nemo´s) where we whiled away several plesant hours supping fine Bolivian lager. Unfortunately he was away while we were about so we are still yet to meet the illusive Jan the Man!
Moving on (although we could easily have spent more days chilling in Copacabana) we caught the bus today to La Paz. The journey is now part of our unusual bus rides category , not for being dropped off in the middle of nowhere, having mad locals stroking James' body hair, hideous local kareoke, sheer drop offs but for the fact we all had to pile off to allow the bus to be punted across Lake Titicaca on a few planks of wood while we were herded across in a very small, ancient boat with water gushing in through the sides! Not scary- just interesting!
Off to mountain bike down "the world's most dangerous road" tomorrow.......according to Daisy´s mate, Tammy, we are likely to pooh our pants! Bad luck James - just when you thought you were over those little mishaps!!
posted by Polly and James at Thursday, August 25, 2005
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