Copacabana Hotels

... join us in our 6 ½ month odyssey in South America! We left our jobs and packed one bag each and purchased plane tickets, no hotels or plans. We are doing the trip by the sit of our (zipper) pants! Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, ...

... we would need a month. They gave us 60days.  We boarded the bus again and along an 8km stretch of road to Copacabana. We noticed again a shallow area on the edge of lake Titicaka where there were large numbers of flamingoes. We thought we might ...

... some rays!!! After the bus trip a quick power nap was quite welcome, so we returned to the hostal - missing the famour Copacabana sunset..... No worries, because the next day we departed at 8.00 by boat to Challapampa, Isla del sol! The beach was ...

... cook us some trout and back to the hotel for some CSI on the TV.  Life is crazy“…at the Copa, Copacabana….” don’t think Barry Manilow wrote the song about this place!  Although I did think I was hallucinating at one ...

... time and were able to breathe a big sigh of relief. Unbeknown to us, our ferry wasn’t going directly back to Copacabana, making a detour instead to Bolivia’s floating islands. As we hadn’t stayed in Puno we hadn’t visited the ...

... area was very littered and the hotels all seemed a bit rundown. We decided to go up towards the 16th century Catedral de Copacabana though, and we saw many people kneeling and intensely praying before a shrine to Mary. As we walked around we noticed ...

... with the peaks of the mountains, also served as a lighthouse for sailors when fires were lit inside. Back in Copacabana Leo gave us the choice of two hotels, one at the back of the town and the other on the shores of the lake.  Naturally we chose ...

Becs 20/4: Well up bright and early for our tourist bus from La Paz to Copacabana, a town on Lake Titicaca.  We took Milton Tours tourist bus which took about 3.5hrs including a little lake crossing where they put people on one boat and there is no ...

... non-locals in our age bracket outside of a couple of ancient drifters. Somethings to take into account about Bolivia in general and Copacabana in particular:  There are either no ATM machines or very few of them and very often they do not work. ...

... Incas thought the Sun was created (duh). We went for a walk up the mountain on the island with lovely views.   Back in Copacabana we hung out for a couple of days as we couldn't get a bus back to La Paz because the pesky Bolivians were staging a ...

... going to La Paz today and we are going tomorrow so we might bump into them again. Later we had a fabulous dinner later in Oruro restaurant which is in the Lonely Planet- this book is a godsend! 2/8/08 Leaving Copacabana this morning to go to La ...

... :-) The rest of our journey was either alongside or overlooking the lake and beautiful surrounding scenery, quite spectacular. On arrival in Copacabana we discovered that the boat to Isla del Sol left in a couple of hours so, rather than spending the ...

... Sol. The largest island on Titicaca, Isla del Sol is the supposed birthplace of the Incan people (and the sun) and Copacabana’s biggest tourist attraction. Despite the agonizingly slow boat ride to the island (2hrs each way) we found the island to ...

... same Tour Peru bus for 65 Soles each! The moral to this Peruvian story: ask around before you buy…. The journey to Copacabana with Tour Peru involved a change of bus in Puno at 6am. Surprisingly, the Puno bus station was full at that time. There ...

... alojamiento (cheap hotel) and hit the town. I didn't have a lot of time and I needed to get my act together. Fortunately, Copacabana is littered with travel agencies. Having saved a ton of money by staying in the jungle for six weeks, I was quite happy ...

... the journey up! The hotel is nice so we again head back up there and get an early night. Whilst wondering around Copacabana we noticed hundreds of the unwashed just sitting around, looking dirty and waiting for nothing which puzzled us somewhat, though ...