Copacabana, Bolivia Travel Blogs

Laguna Glacial
Apr 10, 2008 (4 photos)

... white mountains form the eastern (I think) backdrop. Even the drive from La Paz is beautiful as we paralleled he Cordillera Real, Bolivia's great stretch of the Andes, most of the way. We got talked into hiring a guide for this hike, though neither of ...

Copacabana and Isla del Sol
Nov 17, 2005 (22 photos)

Caught the second-slowest bus in all of SA to get here (Copacabana) from La Paz. Were solicited on the bus (ice-creams, food, clothing, etc.) and as soon as we got off the bus for accommodation. We took the accommodation after a half-hearted look in the ...

Isla Del Sol, Copacabana
Sep 13, 2008

... fresh after a good shower. Now I think we're going to meet up with the two Irish girls to have dinner and then I hope to go to sleep not too late tonight since I'm quite tired and because we're headed to La Paz, Bolivia's capital, tomorrow. PHOTOS

Crossing the Boarder
Mar 7, 2006 (2 photos)

picture of lake Titicaca

Copacabana
Nov 13, 2008 (26 photos)

... check in early and have a good rest. In the afternoon, we have a stroll in town and go the cathedral.Copacabana´s Virgin Mary is really worshipped in Bolivia. In the grotto where the statue is, you can see words written on the walls in wax. Outside ...

Lac Titicaca du côté bolivien
Dec 3, 2008 (10 photos)

Buenos Días, André s`est encore fourvoyé sur ce site et les photos ont été envoyées sans le message. Copacabana (rien à voir avec la plage brésilienne) est un village sans grand intérêt devant un site magnifique : la rive du Lac Titicaca, à ...

Biking Bolivia
Sep 6, 2009 (8 photos)

... to the dairy for some more milk. Never-the-less, when we heard about an amazing mountain biking adventure through 6 ecosystems of Bolivia`s "Royal Range", and ending with a boat ride into the jungles of Northern Bolivia 5 days later we knew we had to ...

The Little Things, Part II
Jun 10, 2008

... three-cell apartments where their families can stay. Unfortuantly we were too late to visit, but witnessed women and children simply strolling in and out unhindered. We definitely recommond Bolivia as a travel/holiday destination. A true experience!

Isla del Sol
May 15, 2005 (6 photos)

on the way

Fish at last
Oct 4, 2007 (3 photos)

pics uploaded

Trucha ó trucha?
Dec 13, 2006 (9 photos)

Endlich am heiligen see angekommen: Lago Titikaka! und was macht man am see, natuerlich erstmal fisch essen und bierle trinken. danach gibts noch zwei berge zu besteigen auf denen leute geheiligt werden, eigentlich wird aber nur mit bier rumgespritzt, ...

Rollin Solo- Bolivia Bound
Apr 16, 2009 (6 photos)

... wasting time until I could finally leave the city. An overnight trip to the Bolivian border and I am in the port town of Copacabana. A sleepy little place on the Eastern shores of Lake Titicaca. Not knowing that I needed a visa to enter the country, my ...

Bolivia: what a great country!
Nov 17, 2004 (4 photos)

... Huaraz/Trujillo, from about 6 weeks ago. What a small place the world is. Today I travelled from Puno to Copacabana in Bolivia, through more miles of dusty altiplano, punctuated occasionally by small towns, the houses built of the mud bricks that you ...

Copacabana, Isla del Sol og Lago Titicaca
Apr 25, 2007 (9 photos)

... havde da ogsaa fantastisk solskin og fik roede kinder og naeser, men varmt var der nu ikke :-) English: We have now come to Copacabana in Bolivia at the brim of the lake Titicaca. The lake is more like an ocean to look at because it is 230 km long and& ...

Felt like Caca at Lake Titicaca
Sep 26, 2005 (12 photos)

... best. From Copacabana we visited the Island of the Sun, a one and a half hour, very bumpy and nauseating ride from Copacabana. This island is very important historically because it is where the Incas believed the sun and the moon were born. Also where ...

Arrived in Copacabana
Mar 2, 2007

Well, I´ve arrived in the cutest little town of Copacabana. Starting with last night... - met 3 Indian girls from UK traveling around the world, had already done Chine, Thailand, Cambodia, Aussie, NZ, and now in SA.  These people I meet are truly ...

La Paz - Copacabana
Mar 7, 2005

... copacabana. dabei muessen wir den titicacasee ueberqueren, was am fruehen morgen eine sehr eindrueckliche sache ist. copacabana ist ehr ein bisschen eine absteige fuer aussteiger und intelektuelle, langhaarige und jesuslatschentraeger, aber hat auch ...

Titicaca and the end of our Bolivia experience!
Aug 22, 2009 (15 photos)

... we packed and wandered a few meters down the road, spent an extra dollar on a swanky penthouse room with a decent mattress! Copacabana is generally the stopping off point for people on their way to Peru (like us) or vice versa. The main attractions ...

Isla del Sol and Lake Titicaca
Oct 24, 2006 (9 photos)

... something. It was cool - there were ruins. We took a nice walk around the island that took three hours. The best part of Copacabana was this giant hill in the center of the town that I climbed up the first day and then decided to run up again the ...

Via La Paz to Copacabana
Sep 4, 2004 (7 photos)

... a crossing over to the peninsular on Lake Titicaca. The bus went on a barge whilst we took a motor boat to the other side. Copacabana was full of Gringos as expected, and we found a room in the hotel we wanted - La Cúpula. The rooms were excellent but, ...

Adios Peru
Jan 24, 2007

... from that kind of luxury. Suffering from a serious case of country burnout, it was obviously time to leave Peru. So we're in Copacabana, Bolivia now. Just down the road from Puno, it's worlds apart, and better in every way. We've just arrived, and plan ...

An Undefined Spirituality
Aug 3, 2006 (7 photos)

... answer of course was no, I´m always searching for something new, always reinventing myself, but some people do find themselves in Bolivia. Some people do figure out what they want from their life when they are traveling in this country. Like the girl ...

Copa...Copacabana
Jan 9, 2007

Isl del Sol was fun

Wundervolle Zeit am Titicacasee.
Aug 6, 2005 (5 photos)

... natuerlich ganz schoen in die Hoehe schnellen. In Peru gibt es sogar grundsaetzlich andere Preise fuer Auslaender, ungefair 3-5 Mal soviel. Copacabana liegt auch direkt am see, von hier aus gehen die Boot auf die Insel der Sonne und die Insel des ...

Lake Titicaca
Jun 20, 2007 (15 photos)

Decided to do Puno (Peru) & Copacabana  (Bolivia) on the way back to La Paz via Lake Titicaca. Is a nice easy border crossing where they motor your bus over on a big wooden raft while you squeeze into a rickety speed boat! Puno hasnt had a good write up ...

Charazani i Curva
May 22, 2008

... instrument i ballaven van anar parant i fotent-se cervessa durant 12 hores i, clar, al final es veien escenes molt repetides ja a Bolívia, tothom trompa perdut i rient amb més bon ritme que ballant...fins i tot i havia un paio que ballava amb una dona a ...

A Brand New Countryª
Oct 3, 2007

... mammoth entry that was the Machu Pichu trek, Ill be a little more brief. Travel bus. Sleep. Cusco wait. Train. Titicaca. BOLIVIA So here we are in our second country. Im finding it tough with the altitude and having problems holding my hands above ...

Sacred island, holy cars!
Nov 27, 2009 (7 photos)

... there is no reduction in the number of car accidents in the area as compared to everywhere else, but it seems like a nice idea. My bus for La Paz left at 1.30pm and so I left Copacabana having a first good impression of Bolivia. That was soon to change.

Around the highest lake in the world
Feb 16, 2009 (36 photos)

... great the team was working. The decision was taken and the day after we were crossing the border to go to Bolivia, precisely to Copacabana (only the name is similar to the better known Brazilian beach, in particular the temperature is some 20 degrees lower ...

Lac Titicaca, le plus haut du monde
Apr 22, 2006

... fondateurs des Incas, qui viendraient de cette île. Nous continuons notre chemin jusqu´à un village où nous ré-embarquons vers Copacabana. Nombreux voyageurs choisissent de passer une nuit sur l´île tellement elle est belle, et il y a de nombreuses promenades à ...