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 …

Warning - this blog post may contain disturbing scenes, including swearing and bowl-related violence. Well the good news today is that my cold appears to be shifting; the bad news is that I've got the *****. But let us start from the very beginning in order that we can trace the source of this new and highly untimely discomfiture. Rudely awoken by …

After loosing another credit card, this time due to the errors of the bank rather than my own, it was time to depart La Paz and head out to Copacabana to visit the beautiful Lake Titicaca. Much as I loved La Paz there was no way I was going to wait there for four weeks for another replacement card to arrive. Other arrangements for that could be …

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 …

This place was an eye opener it is the largest island on lake titikaka, the worlds highest navigable body of water at 4000m it is where the sun was born in Inca mythology. When you stand on top of the mountain you can see why looking at this lake it is just magnificent at 280km long and 150 or so km wide it is just mahusive. Its a lake but it …

Breakfast at Casa Verde was the best we have had yet. Fresh melon, peach yogurt as opposed to the pink stuff, freshly squeezed orange juice, nice bread for toasting, real butter, and eggs and bacon. It was divine. We went to the airport for our final Amaszonas flight, which of course had changed time but they again had not bothered to notify us. We …

We had breakfast about 7.45am as our boat to the island was at half past eight. There were eggs, fruit, bread, pink yogurt and ubiquitous dry biscuits which we of course avoided. The boat to Isla del Sol took about an hour and a half. we decided to start in the north of the island, because the guide book said there were some impressive Inca ruins …

Entry containing 113 photos titled: Lake Titicaca

From Copacabana we took a boat across lake Titicaca to the islands of the sun. We took a guided tour to the top of the north island, taking in some pretty good views of the bays below and snow topped mountains along the way …

On Tuesday morning, we had a pancake breakfast and were, then, picked up just after 8am. We got into a big bus, picked up two couples and drove to the port. Once there, we got on a motor boat with about twenty other people and set off. Lake Titicaca is on the border between Peru and Bolivia and has about 40 floating islands. Cruising on the …

... either side of the road, so sleepy I was not, my eyes were fixed on the road. After an hour we came to part of Lake Titicaca that needed to be crossed via boats. That meant the passengers catching a small fishing boat to cross the river and the bus, ...

... 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 ...

... at the Copa, Copacabana, ... the music and passion were always the fashion at the Copa .... Copacabana is a town on Lake Titicaca. Titi = puma and caca = rock. Puma rock. this is the start of this episode, so enjoy the photos while I work on ...

... get change in when it cost 40 bolivianos and the lady had to leave the café and spend 10 minutes getting change for a 50!  Lake Titicaca is enormous, which you get the feeling of more here than the Puno side. The boat to the island took 2 hours and ...