We were heading for Copacabana on the southern shore of lake Titicaca (which you can see just west of La Paz on the map!!) with lots of warnings that we were now in Bolivia (the poorest of the SA countries) and so we should be prepared for standards to drop. In fact, compared to Puno in Peru, Copacabana was a nice little town with a kind of hippy/arty feel. The hotel was nice and had hot running water, a comfortable bed and a tv…ok there was a bit of a smell but we were expecting worse!! When we arrived we climbed a hill on the north of the town which had the stations of the cross built on the way up and had a beautiful view of Lake Titicaca to watch the sunset.
The next morning we headed to Isla del Sol. In Inca mythology it is believed to be the birthplace of the sun. The island had some ruins, which were tiny in comparison to the ruins we had seen over the previous weeks and to be honest we are kind of ‘ruined out’!! But the trek across the ridge of the island, which took a couple of hours, was nice and the views of the lake on either side. The little kids we met on the way were lovely!! We bumped into two kids after our lunch stop and I gave them the remains of my lunch, a couple of pieces of fruit and a cheese sandwich but then they spotted my sweets!! I gave them the rest of my packet of Tangtastic Haribo and you should have seen their faces when they put them in their mouths!!
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