La Paz to Copacabana
La Paz houses
Locals at the bus station
Copa centre. The blessing of the cars!!Hey all... It´s been a while thanks to a busy 10 days.
La Paz turned out to be a lot more intersting than we expected and also not as unsafe as we had heard. We stayed in a great Hostal called the Adventure Brew, which included free all you can eat pancake breakfast! and one free beer - brewed on the premises - every night! which was just as well because thanks to the altitude smog, general filthy air and possibly a little bit of dodgy food Jude was ill for 3 days! So it was a blessing that we were in a nice hostal.
We had 2 days of sight seeng before Jude was struck down, and in that time we managed a few museums (one about the history of the Coca plant), a photo expo and the witches and local markets, so not a complete loss, and got a good feel for the city, which is completely MANIC!!
After 4 night we were ready to move on so we got the bus to Copacabana on the shore of lake Titicaca. The journey there was amazing, at one point we got on a little boat to cross the lake whilst the bus was put on a rickety wooden barge and floated across!! Absolutly hilarious, huge bussess bobbing around all over the place...Once in Copa we had a slpurge for $3 each per night in a great Hostal with an equally great Restaurant next to it with SALAD!!! which is rare, and if you do find it it is normally rinsed in dodgy water! The resaturants was sterile!!! awww yeah!!
Copa is a real hippy town and a bit touristy but nice and chilled and right on the lake, a blessed relief from La Paz.
From Copa we did a day trip to the Isla del Sol, a 2 hours boat ride on titicac. It´s the island the Incas believe the Sun was born from, and was our firs taste of Inca ruins. the boat drops you at the north where you visit a small museum and some ruins before a 3 hour walk to the south where the boat collects you and takes you back, and this was where the fun began!! The outboard motor was being a little tempramental, after a lot of stopping and staring and bobbing about, it finally packed up about 20 mins in to the journey back!! We spent about an hour bobbing around whilst the driver stripped the motor, which thankfully worked and we made it back safely one and a half hours late!! Comedy!!
Bolivia is renowned for it´s tempramental transport and infastructure and it was great to experience some of the problems, the journeys we took all be it by train bus or boat have been the most memorable of our travels so far, and that combined with the truely stunning out-of-this-world scenery has made it our top country so far. It´s been hard work, but ultimately rewarding!
Another post to follow this as we have been busy bees so eyes up!
xxj&jxx
p.s. lake Titicaca is soooo massive it´s like being by the sea!! without waves!
La Paz turned out to be a lot more intersting than we expected and also not as unsafe as we had heard. We stayed in a great Hostal called the Adventure Brew, which included free all you can eat pancake breakfast! and one free beer - brewed on the premises - every night! which was just as well because thanks to the altitude smog, general filthy air and possibly a little bit of dodgy food Jude was ill for 3 days! So it was a blessing that we were in a nice hostal.
We had 2 days of sight seeng before Jude was struck down, and in that time we managed a few museums (one about the history of the Coca plant), a photo expo and the witches and local markets, so not a complete loss, and got a good feel for the city, which is completely MANIC!!
After 4 night we were ready to move on so we got the bus to Copacabana on the shore of lake Titicaca. The journey there was amazing, at one point we got on a little boat to cross the lake whilst the bus was put on a rickety wooden barge and floated across!! Absolutly hilarious, huge bussess bobbing around all over the place...Once in Copa we had a slpurge for $3 each per night in a great Hostal with an equally great Restaurant next to it with SALAD!!! which is rare, and if you do find it it is normally rinsed in dodgy water! The resaturants was sterile!!! awww yeah!!
Copa is a real hippy town and a bit touristy but nice and chilled and right on the lake, a blessed relief from La Paz.
From Copa we did a day trip to the Isla del Sol, a 2 hours boat ride on titicac. It´s the island the Incas believe the Sun was born from, and was our firs taste of Inca ruins. the boat drops you at the north where you visit a small museum and some ruins before a 3 hour walk to the south where the boat collects you and takes you back, and this was where the fun began!! The outboard motor was being a little tempramental, after a lot of stopping and staring and bobbing about, it finally packed up about 20 mins in to the journey back!! We spent about an hour bobbing around whilst the driver stripped the motor, which thankfully worked and we made it back safely one and a half hours late!! Comedy!!
Bolivia is renowned for it´s tempramental transport and infastructure and it was great to experience some of the problems, the journeys we took all be it by train bus or boat have been the most memorable of our travels so far, and that combined with the truely stunning out-of-this-world scenery has made it our top country so far. It´s been hard work, but ultimately rewarding!
Another post to follow this as we have been busy bees so eyes up!
xxj&jxx
p.s. lake Titicaca is soooo massive it´s like being by the sea!! without waves!
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