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Isla del Sol Slideshow
Isla del Sol
Travel Blogs from Isla del Sol, Bolivia
The Inca Island That Craddles The Sun
This is a top pick! ... to hike around the island, but as we got a later boat we decided just to visit the south part of the island. Isla del Sol has become quite touristy over the last few years with hostels and boutique hotels (Bolivian style….so not very glam!) popping ...
Copacabana, Isla del Sol, La Paz
This is a top pick! ... the island and lake Titicaca, but at this altitude the walk was tough, and we frequently found ourselves gasping for breath. The Isla del Sol made a nice day trip, but it is nothing like the uniqueness of the Uros on the Peruvian side of the lake. La ...
Worship The Sun
This is a top pick! ... hiding the bananas that she´d just bought from my view as she returned! The next morning was terrible again and I decided that ´La Isla Del Sol´ wasn´t sunny enough, it was time to leave. I can start to understand why the Incas worshipped the sun ...
Sunburnt on Isla del Sol
This is a top pick! ... the contrast between the subtle greens and reds of the land and the startling blue of the lake was truly breath-taking. Isla del Sol is quite a hilly island, and its slopes are covered in cultivated terraces that date from Inca times. Small villages ...
Island of the sun
This is a top pick! ... people we saw in Copacabana. So from a cultural perspective we would recommend that more time is spent on the Peruvian islands that in Isla del Sol. At the end of the day it was quite a brisk walk to get to the southern port and we managed to ...
Isla Del Sol
This is a top pick! ... going back to sleep. The weather eventually cleared at around 11am so we took the 1pm ferry. We booked everything through Isla Del Sol Tours which is located beside the Ambassador in Copacabana but realised about 24 hours later that we´d been taken for ...
Friends Reunited
This is a top pick! I was sad to leave Cuzco after a great week there, but more places to see so on would with my travels..... A 7 hour bus journey took me Puno on the Peru shore of Lake Titicaca. The bus company in cuszo had advertised a direct bus, not to much surprise ...
Isla de Sol, no roads just donkeys
... hill, surviving small drops, walking through fields of mint, squeezing through more bushes. One could say I was lost, but I'm on Isla de Sol in Bolivia, I just happen to be in a tight squeeze! I concluded the drop by having to sneak through a ...
Hace mucho sol!
... called Nora, who - along with her hubby Guillermo - travelled with me on the 2 hour crossing to the north of the Isla Del Sol... The walk across the island was tough in parts (lots of steep hills!), passing Inca ruins and old villages and ...
Off to the Island del sol
After missing the wake up call to leave yesterday (4am), we made sure that we woke up this time and got to the port at 5am (without Xavi who had no motivation and little cash.) That being said I invited Oli and Xavi on the trip because I was the one ...
Copacabana i Isla del Sol
... rynek, na ktorym spotykamy Polki. Niestety nasze rodaczki niebyly skore do rozmowy. Kupujemy wiec bilety na lodke do Isla del Sol (10 Bolivianos) i chwile pozniej odplywamy. Wyspa Slonca jest jedna z wielu na jeziorze Titicaca, ma jednak szczegolne ...
A walk along an island
The next day we got an incredibly slow boat to Isla Del Sol, the largest island in Lake Titicaca where the Incas believed the sun was born. All the locals sat below as we sat on top of the boat with the other gringos and all got burnt, but did manage to ...
Island life, the Bolivian way
Isla del Sol is one of the islands in the lake and the mythical birth place of the Inca Empire and is a short boat trip from Copacabana. We decided to spend the night on the island but unwisely did not leave some of our bags in Copacabana. We only ...
Where The Incas Began
... and eat some steak with chips and rice I was back onto another boat - this time with my personal guide for the Isla del Sol! Crossing over to the island took about an hour and a half but was pretty smooth and the scenery was distracting enough that ...
De La Sol
... of agreement with Peru to utilise more lake space, lol. I decided in advance to save a day and just get straight to Isla del Sol rather than kicking around in Copacobana, which, in actual fact is a nice enough place, but just has little of interest to ...
Copacabana / Lake Titicaca / Isla del Sol
... spend the night at an ecolodge. In the religion of the Incas, it was believed that the sun god was born on Isla del Sol – unfortunately, the sun god didn't feel like making an appearance because Hanna and I spent the rest of the evening hiking ...
tranquility
... toddler walked along the rickety wooden jetty and expelled some unwanted water from himself into the pure waters of lake titicaca. maybe bolivia has the caca side afterall. to the other side of me was a stoney cove which if i was a little more ...
Island of the Sun (and biting cold wind)
... highest navigable lake in the world) and towards our first stop in Bolivia, Copacabana (no not that one Manilow) and the beautiful Isla del Sol. We also met a cool dutch guy on the bus who we`ve travelled with until La Paz. Running ...
Lake Titicaca
... again) into Bolivia, we made our way to the beach of Copacabana and caught a ferry across Lake Titicaca to Isla del Sol. We almost stayed in Copacabana due to lonely planet´s reference of, ´charming and enchanting lakeside town.' Now if ...
No better name for this island!
The sun has been following us around for 2 days. So hot and bright! No wonder they named it the Sun island! But also because the legend tells that the god Viracocha created the Sun and the Moon here. So of course we went to see where this "happened". ...
Hydrofoils at Lake Titicaca
... and the best it turned out, of the trip. Gustavo took us to see the cathedral in Copacobana – the most important church in Bolivia and also the same place where thousands of people come to get their cars blessed! It was a nice place and we ...
Jan 17, 2011
Wypad na sylwestrowe electronic party
... gdzie udaje sie wiekszosc mieszkancow tego miasta, ale ze juz bylo za pozno zarezerwowac jakis hotel to padlo na Isla del Sol polozona na jeziorze Titicaca (skad wg wierzen inkaskich pochodzili pierwsi Inkowie). Jako ze wglednie pozno wstalismy tego dnia ...
Isla del Sol - Dream Island
We arrived on this Island together with our friend Marie-Anne. We arrived on the island with the boat from Copacabana. On board, with us, were our big backpacks. When arriving on the Island, we realised that we wouldn't go far, as the landmass towered ...
Isla del Sol, a little paradise...
... island on the Peruvian side of the lake Titicaca, we got on board a boat to take us to the Bolivian island of Isla del Sol (5,000 inhabitants). Amazing, such an enchanting place... We found a nice little accomodation (very basic, but that's how they all ...
Rando de 3h et retour Copacabana
au réveil, on se motive et on décide d'aller à la partie sud de l'ile puis de rentrer en bateau sur Copacabana en bateau Guillaume qui s'est fait démonté la jambe par un rugbyman argentin (on s'en fout on a quand meme gagné!!) rentre direct en ...
Lake Titicaca and the Island of the Sun
... we got to La Paz over a week later. Crazy....! (a word we would come to use a lot in Bolivia) We caught a ferry out to Isla del Sol, the legendary birthplace of the Incan sun god. The island is hilly and does not have a single car or ...
Isla del Sol - Lake Titicaca
Isla del Sol is set on the stunning Lake Titicaca, just on the border between Peru and Bolivia. We took a boat across to the island first thing in the morning, taking just over two hours to get there. We then walked across the Island from North to South, ...