Copacabana

Copacabana is a small and charming town on the Bolivian side of the Lake Titicaca.
To cross the Bolivian border one needs to get off the bus on the Peruvian side, get the Peruvian stamp upon leaving the country, walk a few minutes, get the entry stamp into Bolivia and meet the bus again in Bolivia. All went smoothly.
My first impression is that Bolivia is somewhat more « hippie, colourful and witchy » than Peru.
We get lunch on the water side and I meet Hannah, from London. Afterwards we head by boat to the Isla del Sol, considered as the native place of the Incas. The island has an altitude of 4000 m and we visit the Sun Temple. As there is a conflict between the South and North, not all the island is open to tourists but we can walk from the South harbour to the North.
I come back just in time to watch the sunset from Cerro Calvario.
The second day is easy, I hike to Cerro San Sebastián, where I don’t meet a soul until the summit, where a group dressed in traditional costumes perform a religious ceremony.Read more