HI Inca Pacha Isla del Sol - Lago Titicaca Copacabana

... bums were sore!!!!Off to La Paz tomorrow on the bus...avoiding the road blockage....so then 2 nights in La Paz then off to Rio where we are going to meet up with a couple from our tour so that will be good.<br>Well better go..just had a yummy dinner and now am feeling sleepy in this warm internet cafe...at least these computers are better than the ones we used yesterday.<br>Luv Cetrece and Erin

... petals and strung with blessings and then a local priest comes out and blesses the cars and they do a toast with beer (and then spray the rest of the bottle over the car in celebration). Its very strange, but they seem to take it pretty seriously. <br><br>So we walked a bit around the town and looked around the markets and saw lots of stalls with local handicrafts and we bought some hats for our nephews!<br><br>We are finally ...

... now that's 10B per person", instead of asking politely for a tip. He got nothing from me.<br>The plan is to walk back south along the hill crests, to a village where our boat waits us. The scenery is even more beautiful with altitude, more barren, with small Inca ruins along the path. At about mid-way 2 guys stop tourists and sell them "entry tickets to the south part". It's 1h-1h30 walk to the northern main ruins and it's ...

... bolivian side : people are very cool. I mean the "slow, no stress" kind of cool, almost sleepy.<br>2nd : It's cheap ! :). And poor, true.<br>So I arrive in Copacabana for cheap, find a cheap hostel, buy some souvenirs for cheap, and go along the lakeshore. It's sunset. Pretty.<br>I'm hungry so I head for one of the nearby restaurants, all serving trut. As I write this, it's dark outside and I finish my trut with garlic sauce, Manu Chao playing through the speakers. I feel good.<br>

... frequent stops. <br>The hostels were very basic with very little running water so showering was near on impossible and most of us just decided not to bother... <br>That evening we went for pizza in basicly a mud hut. where they played bob marley constantly! an interesting evening.. <br><br>anyway some info on the lake from Wikipedia <br>located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3,812 m (12,500 ft) above sea level, making it one of the highest commercially navigable lakes ...

... decide to head off again and soon realise that the swell is a bit bigger than when we set off, and its quite hard to paddle. We´re doing fine for time though so no problem. We have paddled for about half an hour and have reached the point where we set off from after our break as we had drifted so much initially. Slightly disheartened I look around at the beautiful scenery and then notice the storm clouds in the distance. They look quite amazing so shout to Al to have a ...

... at the Blue House hostel. At night I found a nearby casino that lets you bet under $2 US per hand at blackjack, still serves free drinks, and lets you ease out of a ****** hand with a slide of the finger and the dealer will give you half your bet back. Pretty good deal. I won my days expenses back before retiring for the night. We hopped a 16hr night bus to Arequipa on more crazy twisting roads through the endless desert and ...

... who knew they had an air force??) appeared to have physical disabilities. I know Bolivia hasn't been involved in a major armed conflict since 1935, so what's up? They appeared to be congenital problems, but I really couldn't tell through the uniforms. ?¿?¿ <br><br>So, I finally arrived at Lake Titicaca on Saturday morning. At 3820m, the lake is "among the world's highest navigable lakes"...whatever that means. I guess someone has found ...