After La
Paz it was time to visit one more place in Bolivia before heading to Peru. We
wanted to visit a small town called Copacabana on the world’s highest Lake
Titicaca but the road there had been closed for weeks because of some strikes
of local farmers. We were lucky enough that the road just opened when we wanted
to visit the place and as we arrived to the town it was still totally empty and
had hardly any tourists there.
The bus
trip from La Paz was only three hours but we actually hadn’t sleep at all the
night the before so even this trip felt pretty overwhelming… So as we got our
room in Copacabana we couldn’t be happier to sleep couple of hours before
exploring the town.
In
Copacabana we did a tour to the legendary island of Isla Del Sol which is said
to be the birthplace of the whole Inca mythology. The boat there was the
slowest we ever have had and it took almost three hours to even get to this
island! On the northern part of the island we had a guided tour to the ruins
where the Inca creation legend began but before even getting there we had to
hike an hour in the hottest time of the day. Hiking uphill in those altitudes
is never easy and even with the help of local herbs the hike felt pretty
exhausting…
After the
ruins we took the boat to the southern part of the island and there again
climbed up the famous Inca stairs which includes hundreds of stairs. So in the
end of the whole day trip we were pretty tired from all the hiking and
climbing. But there was no time to rest as we wanted to continue our trip to
Peru already the same evening!
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