Hostal Ambassador Copacabana

We left La Paz at 2 on Sunday afternoon and arrived at Copacabana aroud 6. Before we got there though, we all had to get off our bus and get on a boat that took us across the water. Our bus got on a bigger boat and also had to be taken across the water, seen here. Copacabana and Lake Titicaca are really nice places, although a bit touristy. Pretty much everything here is either a hostel or a restaurant. Lake Titicaca has lots of trout so that is the main thing to order and we all had a very g...

La encore, la ville touristique de Copacabana bordant le Lac Titicaca du cote Bolivien n'a aucun interet. Nous decidons donc d'embarquer le jour meme de notre arrivee pour l'Ile du Soleil, joyaux incomparable compte tenu des cliches offerts sur le lac. Des degrades orageux de bleu, vert gris, melant ciel et eau en contreplongee des montagnes lunaires qui constituent la topographie de l'ile. Certainement l'un des meilleurs souvenirs visuels de ce voyage. Paysages si prenant qu'on en oublie pre...

Bonjours, Notre deuxième journée à Copacabana a commencé avec l'ascension de la colline par... (devinez) ... et oui, moi et Claudia. Jaël étant toujours faible, c'était plus sage qu'elle ne fasse pas trop d'efforts. Omar et Paula sont restés avec elle. L'ascension de la colline a été évidemment beaucoup plus facile que Machu Picchu; nous l'avons fait en 30 minutes. La vue de la ville en haut était très belle, mais un peu gâchée par toutes les croix et les monuments aux saints. Nous avons pris...

Hola, Nous voilà dans la ville de Copacabana. Nous sommes finalement en Bolivie. Étant une petite ville, il n'y avait pas une grande quantité de chose à visiter. Premièrement, nous avons dù trouver un hotel. Nous avons réservé 2 chambres au Ambassador Views Hotel, qui avait l'air du 2e plus grand hotel de la place. L'extérieur était beau, mais les chambres étaient un peu sales et très mal isolées. La nuit nous nous faisions réveillé soit par les chiens ou par des gens qui rentraient en riant ...

We got a direct bus over the border to Bolivia which made the border crossing quick and smooth. Great scenery (again!) and we had one night here - just a stopover for Isla del Sol - very cold!!!

Just arrived in Bolivia, the sun is still blasting off Lake Titicaca, and it´s quite warm (still jumper-wearing temperatures though). It was an easy passage through immigration, except for a couple of Americans on the bus, who had to fork out 100 US Dollars for visas!!! And, the **** exchange rates being offered for our soles and dollars at the border, but hey there ain´t an ATM in Copacabana - our first port of call. After looking around a bit, we decided on Hostal Ambassador (not as grand a...

Our last stop in Bolivia was Copacabana.....yes I did say Bolivia. Apparently its the original copacabana which was more than I knew. The journey from la paz to copacabana was itself rather interesting, involving the bus taking a river crossing on a rather shoddy looking barge. Our ticket saleswoman was kind enough to explain that the passengers on the bus don´t stay on the bus during the crossing in case that the bus toppled over and we would all drown but instead said that for the princely ...

Wel,, we said good-bye to Peru on a high! What better way to end our time there than walking the Inca Trail! After an excellent (and dry) night´s sleep back in Cusco, we hopped onto a bus to Puno early on the morning of Monday 16 January. We planned to head straight over to Bolivia, so in Puno we hopped onto a local bus to the frontier town of Yunguyo. Phew, we just made it over the border in time! The Bolivian border post closes at 6.30pm - we arrived in Yunguyo at 6pm and then caught a tric...