Blogs from Isla del Sol, La Paz Department, Bolivia, South America - page 10

Just got back form a couple of nights on the Isla Del Sol. The island was great, really relaxing as theres no cars there, lots of donkeys though! It was really hilly though so pretty exhasting to get around. The restaurant we had dinner in on the first night was half way through construction! The sign on the wall said ´Welcome to the´ so we spent a lot of time inventing names. We had a lot of time as it took them about 2hrs to make our dinner! It was nice though, still eating a lot of the fresh trout from the lake.. its yummy. On our full day on the island we took a boat to the otehr end and found ourselves in the middle of a fesival! There were lots of locals in fancy ... read more

We just got back to Peru after a couple nights in Copacabana Bolivia. The border involved getting off our bus, checking out of Peru, walking about 200m into Bolivia and checking in there then get back on our bus. Copacabana is only a few minutes beyond the border. Bolivia is poorer than Peru so the prices for most things we quite a bit less. The day we arrived the boys and I climbed up a local hilltop for a nice view of Copacabana and the lake, also Isla del Sol in the distance. For the way don we went cross country and did some climbing on boulders along the way. Trudy and Jas stayed in town to shop. The next day we took a boat in the morning to the north end of Isla del Sol, ... read more

We Left La Paz (for the last time) on a bus to Copacabana, on the edge of lake Titicaca. The highest lake of this size in the world. It is a beautuful lake with really clear waters and amazing islands dotting in the middle. One of which- the biggest, is Isla Del Sol. We headed there for the day to follow the steps of the Incas. We arrived and walked to the north where the temple is. A really spiritual place of worship, built like a labinth - really amazing and special. The views from ther temple are amazing, its definatly a place I could spend hours just sitting there. We walked 3 hours to the south, the walk was amazing - views of the bluest water, all around. The land on the island is in ... read more

The next morning - or midday … whenever it was, it was hot enough so that the tent, my sleeping-bag, and I became a sweaty bundle of sticky, humid surfaces. Like a fruit roll-up right out of the wrapper that still clings to the cellophane. Sort of. Whatever. The point is that we had been lazing in our tents, waiting for the rain to stop so we wouldn´t have to pack wet gear, and in the mean-time been caught by the soft-lit drowsiness of a warm tent, like Ulysses on a lotus binge… but, as I said, we got driven out of our tents when the vegetable-steamer of nylon became too much Sort of like luke-warm bathwater, except in this case it was Too hot to stay in, two crazy Argentineans to get out. Stretching in ... read more

Rich here we decided go to Copacabana to check into a swanky hotel for ridiculously little money (30 dollars a night for the best suite, cant complain). Only problem was, when we got there they´d ballsed up the reservation, and politely explained "no, it was for yesterday (in fact, beforfe the reservation was made), why didnt you come yesterday?" hmmm, thanks. so the main reason for bothering to go to gringo central in the first place was still born. To make up for that, we decided to go to the magnificent Isla del Sol, the center of the Inca official religion (only the high level one, relating to the Inca himself, the other minor deities that were, and still are, worshipped round here originate all over the place, strange trees, interesting looking rocks, holes in the ... read more