Lake Titicaca & Copacabana

After having spent the last while between the desert in Atacama and the Bolivian salt flats we dicided that we should probably try to find somewhere with a slightly more water, so we headed up to lake Titicaca. The lake is the highest navigatable lake in the world, and is looking to be considered as 1 of the new 7 wonders of the world ( as was Iguacu falls, but the falls defiately get our vote ) We headed to the southern side of the lake to a place called Copacabana ( not the beach ). The way that the bus went meant that we had to cross the lake in a ferry, but we had to do it seperate to the bus, as the ferry wasn't exactlly state of the art... when the bus was driven on it looked like the ferry would capsise.


The surrounding countryside at the lake was very similar to Scotland in appearance, and we could have thought we were back home apart from the sun shining on us, and it only being april.


In Copacabana itself there wasn't that much to see or do, apart from a stunning Chapel, and possibly the hardest stations of the cross in the world. The stations are spread out up the side of a hill and climbing at this altitude is no mean feat. We were actually congratulated by a local just for reaching th top of the hill... The main idea of going to Copacabana was to use the location to cross the lake to Puno ( Peru ) and onroute see the floating villages of reeds. After looking in to the floating villages some more, and talking to other travelers, all of whom said that they weren't worth going to see, as they were simply tourist traps tryin to sell overpriced trinkets and tat ( I thought that i'd better keep Arlene away...lol ) we decided that it wasn't going to be worth the money. So the following day we set off by bus around the lake and up into Peru and to Cusco ( ater buying quality Fur Alpaca hats....and no they are not tat....lol)