After flying in from the rainforest I only spent a few hours in La Paz, from the airport I rushed to a bar called Oliver’s Travels (officially the 5th best bar in town and a 100% fake English pub) to watch England’s disappointing defeat in the world cup. Strangely when we eventually lost, not one person made a sound, everyone just got up and left. That afternoon I got a bus through to Copacabana, a small colonial town on the edge of Lake Titicaca whose name was made famous by Barry Manilow. On my first morning there I climbed the Stations of the Cross, a steep hill adjacent to the town, to get a good view of the lake. Being the highest lake on earth ensures that wall to wall blue skies are a daily occurrence;
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