We headed on a tourist bus for a nice 3 hours to the biggest f*ckin lake we have ever seen...that ended up being a bit of an ongoing joke - for some reason the lake made us continually comment on how big it really was..."geez that's a big lake" - that is a f*ckin big lake" etc etc...The three hour bus was broken up by a ferry (us, well boat) and barge (bus) across Lake Titicaca to get to the lakeside town of Copacabana (not the one from the song, that is Brazil)..while waiting for a bus we almost got run over standing on the footpath, some guys brakes had failed going down a hill and he ran into a power pole, literally, right next to us...
Copacabana is nothing special, after a bite to eat we walked up a nice hill for a lovely view of the BIG f*ckin lake....the lake is so big you can't see the other side, it literally looks like the sea...crazy...We checked out a more than impressive Cathedral/Church thingy and a bizarre bird museum.
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| Copacabana |
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| The Lake |
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| Cathedral/Church thingy |
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| Strange bird Museum - these are all real! |
The next day we headed out to Isla del Sol (or island of the sun) which as Inca legend has it, is the birthplace of the sun, that made everything or something....no guide that day... We landed in both the north and south side of the islands and had a couple hours to walk up over and explore some ruins, awesome views, fountains, and more awesome views of the lake and surrounding mountains.
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| Some nice chilli Andes in the distance... |
The next day we were supposed to bus out of there....but guess what...STRIKE...these Bolivians love there strikes, the Peru/Bolivia border was closed for 43 days, now the price of pertol rises a little and the 5 roads to La Paz are blockaded by massive boulders and not even a taxi will go through with threat of being stoned.....So we spent the whole afternoon on the internet/skype trying to cancel/move our flights we had booked for the next day. That and Steph went bracelet shopping.
We got out of there fine the next day, when we got to La Paz we spent a good part of the next 6 business hours trying to cancel the flight we had missed due to the strike....after three trips to the airlines office, the last time with the travel agent in tow, we had our refund minus 30% which was good....with my ever short temper I was very close to giving up.... Aaaarghhh.
We checked out the witches market with many llama fetuses in varying stages of development (apparently it is good luck to bury oneunder the front of a new house) and had an awesome steak at a steak house with their corny slogan " A rare steakhouse well done" - corny but coupled with my first bourbon and coke for six months was a killer meal.....and we managed to change the date of our flights to Africa, so we have bought another couple of weeks in Argentina...sick.
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| The Witches market in La Paz |
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| A close up of the previous photo - Llama fuetuses' |
