Hostal Emperador Copacabana

Nous prenons vers 12h30 un bus du Cimentero vers Copacabana (3800 n) sur les berge du lac Titicaca et non pas la plage bresilienne. La particularite du voyage est qu'au detroit de Tiquina, le bus travers le bras de lac sur une barge et les passagers sur un petit bateau, puis on remonte dans le bus de l'autre cote. Ce passage permet d'eviter de passer par le Perou auquel la presque ile de Copacabana est ratachee. Arrives en ville, nous deposons nos affaires a l'Hostal Emperador puis partons ma...

Leves vers 11h30, nous partons directement vers la plage pour dejeuner dans une etale. Dans les rues, des files interminables de vehicules de toute sorte (voitures, minis, camions, bus...) attendent pour se faire benir devant l'eglise. Une fois recouvertes de fleurs et de vin, un pretre jete de l'eau benite sur la carroserie, dans le moteur et sur les occupants. Cette Cha'lla (benediction) tres commune remplace et coute moins chere qu'une assurance. Nous mangeons de la truite au Kiosko 13 (al...

Nous prenons un petit dejeuner dans l'hebergment, Lucie est un peu enervee, je pars me ballader. Je descend la montagne vers le lac et la plage de Jajapi, un petit village de pecheurs. C'est tres joli, les barques traditionnelles se refletent dans l'eau au milieu des roseaux. Le sable est et les rochers blancs ainsi que les cultures en terrasses font vraiment croire a une ile de Mediterranee, le froid mis a part. En rentrant ca va mieux avec Lucie, nous partons manger des truites a Yumani (a ...

Ryan and I caught a s/40 night bus from Cuzco to Copacabana, Bolivia, feeling particularly pleased on having haggled the direct luxury bus (which we saw on the picture...) price down. Needless to say, we ended up on a slighty different bus than advertised - before having to change at Puno to a f*cking collectivo. Damn! Still, it was cheap...

Copacabana is a small touristy down on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Upon arriving there we picked up two English girls and set off to find a hosta...

I´m running a little late with the old blog but as I want to make sure that as many pins are in the map as possible, I´m not going to squeeze Copacobana and La Paz into one entry (feel free to skip around). Copacabana is a beautiful town just over the border from Puno. It´s by far the more picturesque side of Lake Titicaca and boy do you get a sense of the scale of the thing. This a lake that is somewhere in the region of 3600 metres above sea level - of non salienated water. It really is bre...

Well here we are in a small, quaint fishing village on the edge of Lago Titicaca. The journey by bus (Collectur) was ok. Going accross the boader was interesting, we had to stop at one office to gain an exit stamp from Peru, then go into another office to get the visa stamped. We then walked 100 yards up the road to Bolivia and got our stamp there before getting back on the bus........all good fun, and theres always that one person from the bus who forgets to the the right stamp and we end up...

Leaving the chaos of La Paz behind, we hopped on a bus to a little town on the shore of the huge Lake Titicaca - Copacabana. We checked into a cheap hostel after being hounded by people at the bus stop all advertising their special hostels with all the "luxury" extras like toilet paper and blankets. Yep... when you're paying US$7 a night for a double room with en suite, these are luxuries!

What we didn't realise though was that the hostel we spent the first night at was sponsored by ...

We got to Puno bus station at 10am to find the buses leave at 8am and 2pm for Copacabana. So we walked to the local colectivo station which the lady at the bus station said was a bit dangerous but having been through Central America we weren´t bothered. We got 3 colectivos and a rickshaw (which took us about 200 yards before flagging down a colectivo) and crossed the Bolivian border to Copacabana, again on Lake Titicaca. The town was rammed as it was Easter Saturday, the beach was packed and ...