My Equator Adventure: Lake Titicaca

May 5, 2016

Our last day in Bolivia we woke up early, packed our bags, had the delicious hotel breakfast buffet, and after leaving our bags at the front desk hopped a bus to Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca.

It was a 4 hour ride from La Paz including a brief interlude where we got off the bus and took a ferry across the strait while the bus was taken across on a barge.

Bus barge

Passenger ferry

Upon arrival to town we 1. Found a bathroom and 2. Found lunch (in that order) then headed for the water. The initial view was amazing.

We were quickly able to find a boat hollering for a trip to las islas flotantes, the floating islands. A half hour boat ride across the lake and we were there.

The 'islands' made me smile. They were clearly paying tribute to when the indiginous people lived on floating rafts of reeds tied together, but these were wooden docks covered with reeds on top.

Fish pens

The view was nice though, and if you desired you could choose a trout out of the pens for a fresh cooked meal. There was a big rock out in the water to walk to for great photo ops.

There was a music group filming a music video while we were there, and I wish I had gotten their name to YouTube later, I bet it looked pretty cool.

Once back on shore we made a quick visit to the spectacular baroque cathedral before hopping a bus home.

Ceiling inside the cathedral

We had the same ferry drill coming home, and got a nice sunset too.

After that it was a late dinner in town, a taxi ride to the airport after grabbing our packs from the hotel, and 22 hours of travel home, safe in the knowledge that we had an excellent last day.

We had a 7 hour layover in Bogota on the way home, and since I was familiar with the city, we headed out of the airport and around town for a little while. Way better than 7 hours of small airport.