Hotel Copacabana

... my travel buddy, Ben, in September 2006. I planned the itinerary; Ben was in charge of lodging (ranging from a zero-star hotel to a 5-star resort). We made several changes to the itinerary before leaving (ex., originally starting in Lima, Peru), but ...

... 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 ...

... border (10soles/$3, 2.5hours, very cramped) Hiking Cerro Caldivario (~30 minutes, great views) Wedding Crashing (free, priceless) Hotel Arcoiris in Copacabana (10bolivianos/$1.25, good location, have to fight for hot water) Isla del Sol Boat Ride ...

... they thought it was such a picturesque place that they also named the famous beach in Rio after it. When we thought of Copacabana we pictured cocktails, glamorous beach and hot weather. On arriving at the original Copacabana we were greeted with quite the ...

... roeien... Pff. Als ik meer tijd had, zou ik hier zeker willen overnachten, het is een mooi eiland. Eens terug in Copacabana ben ik direct naar m'n hotel gegaan om me op te frissen. Iets later, toen ik op zoek was naar een restaurant, kwam ik David ...

... what my Plan B was, and I was ready to get rolling on it. There are daily tourist (in other words comfortable) buses to Copacabana, but I had already missed those, so it was the public bus or a microbus for me. Those of you that have followed my travels ...

... I might turn into one, and our favourite haunts were La Orilla (don't expect service with a smile though) and Restaurant Copacabana, where we watched Arsenal´s demise in the Champions League (the less said about that the better hey Ian!). ...

... on our faces knowing that we no longer had to worry about the budget so much. The only problem with Copacabana was that it was freezing at night and our hotel room did not feel like that warmest place to be. So the next morning I woke up with a cold ...

... l’adoration du dieu Soleil a été supplantée par la foi catholique, et de nombreux pèlerins viennent toute l’année à Copacabana implorer la bénédiction de la Vierge noire. Un chemin de croix mène au Cerro Calvario, un calvaire qui ...

... mountain (20,000+ feet) with snow. Our hotel in La Paz offers a shuttle bus ($8 each) to their sister hotel, Hotel Rosario del Lago, in Copacabana, our next destination.  We departed La Paz at 8am for a 3-hour bus ride north to Copacabana on the ...

... seemed that we were the only people on the two day excursion and so he would be our companion for the next 24 hours. Copacabana is a colourful, touristy town.  Bolivia lost its access to the sea after the War of the Pacific in 1883 and Copacabana, ...

... fragte ich nach einem Einzelzimmer: 45 Bs!!! Also blieb ich gleich hier :) (und schon wieder verliere ich mich in Details...) Copacabana ist nicht viel außer der Hauptstraße, die zum See runter führt und an der sich alle Restaurants (super schöne, ...

... the lake and listening to traditional Bolivian music. Pe marginea lacului Titicaca, la doar 3 ore de La Paz, se afla orasul Copacabana. Mic, dar cochet acesta a fost cel mai placut oras prin care am trecut. Nu stiu inca exact de ce, insa atmosfera de ...

... town is built in between Mount Calvario and Mount Niño Calvario. The town has approximately 6,000 inhabitants. Copacabana's religious celebrations, cultural patrimony, and traditional festivals are well known throughout Bolivia. There is the belief that ...

... things I wanted to see and it was beautiful. Sparkling still blue water surrounded by greenery, hills and rocks. Our destination was Copacabana, not the one in the song but you still couldn't help singing it to yourself. It was on the shores of the ...

... Paz, we took the bus to the Copacabana, in the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia.  Copa, as it's nicknamed, isn’t the Copacabana from the famous song.  The song refers to a beach by the same name in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.  ...

Copacabana and Isla del Sol by Judith Copacabana in Bolivia has a beach of sorts. Although it cannot rival the Copacabana beach in Brazil, Bolivian holidaysmakers doggedly make the best of its' strip of dirty sand and 12 degree centrigrade Lake Titicaca ...

... to La Paz at 1:30. Breakfast for me consisted of a burger and chips and Elles a yogurt and fruit :-) ...we said our goodbyes to Copacabana and left on a bus grabbing a seat next to a window. The drive was really interesting, we even had to cross the lake ...