Copacabana

We've made it to Bolivia. It's our 13th country, only 3 more to go (well 4 if we sneak a few days in Uruguay). Bolivia is land locked (it used to have a coast but they lost it in a war to Peru), but they still have a navy, it's based in Copacabana, Lake Titikaka is their "sea". Here's one of their fleet.

From Puno we traveled round to the Bolivian side of Lake Titikaka, to Copacabana. We stayed in a brilliant hotel overlooking the bay. We treated our selves to the honeymoon suite as we're going to be camping for the next 4 weeks. Here's a pic of the room and me outside looking over the bay. The windows were 12 foot high, it was amazing watching the sunset over the lake.

We took a boat out to the Isla Del Sol. It's where the Incas think the sun was born. We met up with Tony, the guy we did the Inka trail with. The boat dropped us off at the north of the island and the three of us walked to the south. The scenery was amazing, a bit like New Zealand. Gav and I stayed the night, but Tony went back that afternoon, so we walked down to the jetty to wave him off. It was 1000 steep steps down, and a million back up to our B&B. From the B&B we could see the Bolivian mountains, they're over 6000m, they look majestic towering over the lake.

The island is pretty basic, no cars, just donkeys and a few llamas, but it was really peaceful as most visitors are day trippers. The restaurant we went to for dinner didn´t even have electricity, just a wood fire and candles.