Cococabana
Trip Start
Feb 10, 2006
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Trip End
Feb 01, 2007
Cococabana,
Bolivia
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Anyway, it´s quite a sweet little town a beautiful cathedral plonked in the middle. The outside is stunning - very Moorish. The inside is dripping with gold which feels a bit gross when you see all the beggars lining the steps outside.
A very touristy little place as it´s the main crossing point into Peru. Not so many tourists around just now and we had the wonderful Hotel Sonia to ourselves. Cheaper than the hotel in LA Paz and yet you´d think you´d just gone five star - clean, friendly and a brilliant view of the city and it´s stunning sunsets over Lake Titicaca
Bus goes it alone
.We got the bus from Charazani to drop us off at the crossroads where we caught a bus from La Paz to Copacabana not without first being offered a lift by two ¨police men¨ - funny how they had no uniform on nor was the car a police car. We´ve heard about people who pose as police then rob and harm tourists. Was this our lucky escape? Guess we´ll never know. Wish I´d taken the number plate and reported them now but was to much in ´fight or flight´ mode at the time to think about that.
Stayed in Copacabana for a few days before heading off to the Isla del Sol. Arrived back on a Sunday in time to witness the mass blessings outside the cathedral. If you take a toy car, house, luggage (meaning travel), money etc and get it blessed then you will receive the real thing within a year! Saves all the hassle of opening a savings account and actually trying to earn the thing eh? People also drive their real cars up to the gates of the cathedral for yet more luck to be bestowed. Large quantities of flowers, garlands, firecrackers are used to decorate the vehicle as well as beer being liberally splashed around the tyres and money tucked behind the steering wheel. If only life were that simple.
