Copacabana Stories


Copacabana and Isla del Sol

Our journey to Copacabana had an eventful start as we thought a minibus was coming to pick us up at 7:30 am but actually it came at 7:00 am so Steph had a lovely wake up from the porter (I was in the shower) so we quickly packed up and luckily, the whole trip was in a private minibus so it wasn´t too much of a problem! The journey was really pretty ...


Copacabana

Still in Copacabana, my day is supposed to start at 09:00 when my personal guide will come and pick me up to cruise the market and of course the church then head to La Paz around 13:35. The market cruise took about an hour. I entered the church and the “iglesia de velas” (candle chapel). I bought three candles for offering, lit them up, recited my p...


Copacabana

We used Copacabana as a base to get to Isla del Sol on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca - a lake that is so enormous that, at times, you forget you are looking at a lake at all and think you are seeing the sea. To early inhabitants the word 'titi' meant 'puma' and 'caca' meant 'grey' - so this was the lake of the grey puma, named after a rock that 'w...


Approaching Peru (and asking myself 'what kind of traveller am I?')

When I say I can’t believe how time is flying, I really mean it – it’s more than just a glib turn of phrase for me at the moment. Having spent just under a week in Bolivia, I’m now on my way to Arequipa in Peru. Here I’ll spend two weeks volunteering with ‘Traveller Not Tourist’ – an organisation that works with orphans and kids on the street in this ...