Copacabana & Lake Titicaca- Bolivia

With just weeks left in our tour, Doug and I decided not to waste any time after our Machu Picchu trip and got straight on a night bus to Copacabana, Bolivia with our friend Mariem. Copacabana is a little town on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca (Titi-Puma, Kaka-rock), one of the World´s highest lakes (at around 3,800m).

After a quick and easy border crossing, we arrived in Copacabana at about 9am in the morning and quickly booked a little afternoon boat tour to the nearby Isla del Sol for that afternoon. The tour itself consisted of a 1.5hr boat crossing of Lake Titicaca, followed by an hour or so tour of Isla del Sol. One of our first stops on the tour was a natural three-spring fountain where the locals believe that if you drink from the appropriate stream you can be granted love, health, or youth. We all quickly sipped from the fountain of youth, with an extra swallow from the fountain of love for Mariem. Not being in the least bit superstitious, it was still nice to drink some crisp spring water after hiking up about 500 stairs to the fountain.

The tour itself was quick and full of interesting stories of the Inka people who once lived there, and the agriculture and lifestyle of the locals at present.

We were back in Copacabana by 6pm, in time to enjoy a nice meal of trout (Lake Titicaca is known for it), enjoyed some live local music, and hit bed early for some much needed catch-up sleep. A nice little stop over on the way into La Paz.

Here´s some pictures from our visit...

If you can´t see them properly than click on the link here - Copacobana