From Vik: And so into the land of just about 'the highest' everything...highest capital city, highest non-capital city, highest football stadium, highest other stadiums, highest vineyards, highest volcanoes, highest animals on volcanoes, and so the list goes on (as you can start to imagine). But, would you believe it Ian & Shell, NOT the highest largest navigable lake. Allegedly there are other more likely contenders; we were duped by the Lake Titicaca propagandaists. Unbelievable. Although said lake is still a pretty stunning body of water, and perhaps even more so from the Bolivian side of it's shores, where we spent our first night in this - quite literally - breathtaking country. From Copacabana (not the actual one, but undoubtedly the song will now start to infiltrate your brain) we lurched into La Paz, the 3600m capital
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