Hotel La Cupula Copacabana

After our two bus journeys and another boarder crossing we decide we need a treat. Thanks to the Lonely Planet we head to a ´splurge´hotel up on the cliff over looking the lake. We check in an realise we have done exactly the right thing. It is during the hour long shower that I have on arrival that I call out to Al and ask if our budget will allow us another night here...already i´m not ready to leave. The room is amazing...we have a bed on a mezzanine level that looks right out over the lak...

So we left Beck in Cusco and arrived on a 10 hour nightbus to Bolivia. Copacabana is quite small but extremely beautiful overlooking Lake Titicaca, which is the most vibrant blue and 15 times the size of Lake Geneva. It is so big you can't even see the other side! We stayed in the most wonderful hostal called 'La Cupula' that is situated up on the hill overlooking the lake and the town. We had a gorgeous room with the most breathtaking view of the lake. The hostal also has an amazing restaura...

4h bus to Copacabana from La Paz. It´s a small town on the shores of lake Titicaca where you´re hassled by shoe-shine boys, curio sellers and restaurant waiters shouting "trucha trucha" (the lake is famous for it's trout). Roamed around the town, visited the moorish stlye cathedral and viewed a great sunset from one of the nearby hills.

Hoi waterlanders Lago Titicaca is het hoogste bevaarbare meer ter wereld en is ongeveer eenzesde de afmeting van Nederland. Wij hebben er achtereenvolgens de chullpa's (lees: graftorens) van Cutimbo (erg interessant door toedoen van een goede gids), de drijvende rieteilanden van Uros (teleurstellend toeristisch) en het mooie Isla Del Sol (twee dagen wandelen samen met Martin & Anne) aangedaan. Tussendoor zijn wij de grens van Peru en Bolivia overgestoken, en hebben wij drie dagen heerlijk...

We managed to hike up the hill back to town in Sorata and head up to Huarina, where we had to stop on the side of the road and wait (and hope) for another bus to come that could take us to Copacabana. There wasn't much traffic coming so thought we could be in for a long wait, made longer by some drunk Bolivians that came to join us speaking in a mix of slurred Spanish and Quechua, neither could be understood. Luckily a bus came soon enough and we escaped them and were on our way. When we reac...

I woke up at 5 am and could not go back to sleep. At least Bolivia, where I am headed this morning, is an hour ahead! 6 am somehow seems slightly more normal than 5 am. I had another breakfast of champions--three rolls with butter and a banana (opted to skip the coffee syrup and "juice" that my hotel served). A middle-aged woman from Marseille was sitting at the table next to me, so we started chatting. She seemed nice enough, but I did a double take when she claimed that she had no desire to...

Our trip to Copacobana (Copa from now on) was fairly uneventful. The border crossing was quite easy, apart from the fact that Simon, myslef and an Aussie we were chatting to forgot to get stamped out of Peru, so we had to walk all the way back from Bolivia to peru to get our exit stamp. This sounds easy enough, but when you have to walk up hill pretty quickly in 3800m altitude, you really feel the burn!

We arrived in Copa and found the Hotel La Cupula. Its apparently (according to the ...

We hopped aboard our tour boat at 8.30 and took to 2 hour trip to the north part of Isla Del Sol (Sun Island). Somehow we managed to talk ourselves into doing the cross Island trek. We had no idea how long it was, or what the terrain was going to be (All we knew wasd that we had to be at the port on the south of the island for 3.30pm... we had no food and only a litre of water between us!!! oops! Luckily there are a few vendors at the harbour where we managed to pick up some pringles and 6 ba...