Isla Del Sol

Welcome to Bolivia...border with Peru

Still trying to play catch-up on the blog, so here we go!  After our four days in Cusco, Peru we ventured further along on our intended journey and arrived in Bolivia (Yeah!)  So we hopped across the Peru-Bolivian border and made our way to Copacabana.  Just a small little town on the shore of Lake Titicaca, we spent most of our first day there just wandering around, but we climbed the mirador where they were preparing to celebrate a holiday of some sort (don´t quite remember the specifics).  At the top of the mirador looking down upon Lake Titicaca they were selling little knick knacks, like toy homes, cars, buses, trucks, money. Anything and everything that they hope to obtain in the new year, which is the main point of the ceremony, to buy these minature objects of something they hope to possess in the next year, and apparently they shall recieve it.  Not too interesting really, everyone the world around just wants material things. But later that day we were looking for a place to set up our tents for the night, and werent finding any areas with good ground to do so.  The beach of the lake was pretty rocky.  In our search along the shore we ran in to a young Argentinian named Nico who offered us to stay at this little enclosed camping area that he was volunteering at.  So we took him up on his offer, and spent the night hanging out with him and the other volunteers (most from Argentina, but some from Guatemala and Ecuador as well), drinking, eating, and listening to them singing and playing various Latin American songs (like "el comandante" about Che Guevarra).  It was really a memorable night in all aspects, with the food, the music, and of course the people.  The next day we set out early before anyone else was awake (not purposefully of course, but the night before did last quite a while) and set out for Isla Del Sol, an island upon Lake Titicaca where the Incas had built temples and practiced religious ceremonies...