Lake Titicaca Copacabana

Our journey to Lake Titicaca took us through Puno to Copacabana on the Bolivian side of the lake. The town is home to Bolivia´s only beach- which didn´t compare to the beaches back home. The town has been built for tourism and so has many accomodation and eating options but not a lot of culture- the reason you are here is to visit the lake! We did …

We´re at the highest navigable (and best named) lake in the world! It´s much bigger than I thought it was... it used to be an inland sea, so it´s still very massive. The town of Copacabana is very small, but very easy for tourists to navigate. Everything is near the waterfront and as cheap as you´d expect in Bolivia!
We took a 3 hour boat ride …

We only stayed in La Paz for the evening after getting back from the Amazon jungle, so the next day we took the local rickety bus from La Paz west to Copacabana, near Lake Titicaca.

We had to get off and take a small boat to cross Lake Titicaca whilst the bus went on another larger boat. In total the bus took five hours and reached the …

... in the altitude. I'm back (I was here three years ago) in the touristy town of Copacabana (not that Copacabana), on the south-eastern shore of Lake Titicaca. I spend a couple of days visiting Isla del Sol as well as the city itself. It's a really ...

... , the scene one of white pointillism.  They melt and filter back to the sacred lake.  The pilgrimage begins again... Lake Titicaca feels mystical.  Part of it is, no doubt, due to the romantic notions often experienced by a ...

... Cathedral give the town a historical context far beyond the fact that it is also popular place for foreign and Bolivian tourists. Lake Titicaca is the world's highest navigable lake at 12,500 feet above sea level (for you US West Coast readers, that is ...

... for a vehicle that could drive us into Copacabana. Turning Water into Wine on top of Cerro Caldivario Copacabana is a quaint town on the Bolivian edge of Lake Titicaca. It has a slight "beach" feel to it, with heavy boating and fishing industries. ...

... lunch. While Rachel relaxes I climb Cerro Tikani which looms invitingly behind the palace. From the top the blue view over Lake Titicaca encompasses white Andean peaks in the distance, and the brown terraced massif of Isla del Sol with its complex hills ...

... islands the town looked like a serious dump and we were glad to catch the next, much warmer bus, around the Lake to Copacabana, Bolivia. Even after what seemed like a hundred hours on the bus and a sleepless night, Lake Titicaca was spectacular. The ...

... over a surprisingly calm border crossing, get our Bolivian entry stamp, and get a taxi to Copacabana, a small Bolivian fishing village on the edge of Lake Titicaca. The rain which has been threatening all afternoon eventually starts, and it is so cold ...

... country in South America are over a $100 a time. Copacabana is nestled between two hills on the southern shore of Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is the highest and largest navigable lake in the world (3820m). This is regarded as one of the most beautiful ...

... the difference was striking, more haphazzard and disorganised from the off, just what we were looking for. Both Peru and Bolivia share Lake Titicaca, the second highest lake in the world (I think) and from advice we had decided to skip the Peruvian side ...

From Arequipa we took a bus to the small city of Puno, located on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, hoping that we would have time to catch another bus and cross into Bolivia the same day. The bus ride was tediously long, though, so we decided to rest ...