Isla del Sol

Trip Start Aug 10, 2008
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Trip End May 2009


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Thursday, October 2, 2008

    In Copacabana we were immediately struck by how much friendlier the people are and how much cheaper things are in Bolivia. The next morning we took a slow boat to Isla del Sol, the most important religious site in the Inca empire, where the sun was believed to have risen from the lake. There´s no street lighting, no cars, and it is amazingly quiet. We got a hostel with a beautiful view of the sun setting on the lake. We walked 100 metres after sunset to our restaurant where after waiting for only 2 hours we were served an average dinner. When  we saw the place we thought it looked busy as there were so many people in there but it turns out they were all waiting just as long as we were. We stumbled and tripped back to our hotel in the pitch darkness and went to sleep to the sound of.... nothing.

    After a brief walk around the next morning we headed back to Copacabana on an even slower boat which brought us past every Inca ruin and fish farm on the way back. After struggling to get a lunch in the town we flagged down a bus to La Paz which had most of its exhaust piped into the bus instead of out the back. We had to get off the bus so it could be loaded onto a wooden barge to take it across the lake to continue its journey to La Paz, while we floated across on a smaller, presumably safer, boat.
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