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Lady on the Island of the Sun
Blog: A Lady in London - 11 April 2012
It was cold in Bolivia. As my bus wound its way around Lake Titicaca, rain spat at the windows and wind whipped across the roof. Gone was my sunny day on the floating islands in Peru. I was entering a new country en route to the famous Isla del Sol, and I was beginning to [...]
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Photo of the Day: Virgen de la Candelaria Festival Copacabana, Bolivia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 18 February 2011
Copacabana is the main Bolivian town on the shore of Lake Titicaca, from where boats leave for Isla del Sol, the sacred Inca island. The town has a large 16th-century shrine, the Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana. Our Lady of Copacabana is the patron saint of Bolivia. The town is a destination for tourism [...]
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Visa Run: Cusco to Copacabana
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 7 February 2011
Nothing takes the thrill out of a border crossing like a visa run to a small town you’ve already seen. I did the Cusco to Copacabana run, again, a few days ago. It’s not a whole lot of fun, at least not after you’ve already enjoyed la Isla del Sol, but it doesn’t have to [...]
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Copacabana – I think Isla del Sol is more the pretty mama
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 31 December 2010
The drive from La Paz to Copacabana isn’t a long one and you spend a large amount of it driving along the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. One element of the journey left out by the guidebooks is a ferry crossing. You will be required to leave your bus [...]
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Into Boliva
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 8 November 2010
For my final night in Peru I camp on a hill overlooking the mighty Lake Titticaca and after dark I clearly see the lights of Copacabana in Bolivia, less than 50kms away. In the morning I arrive at the Yunguyo border, a very relaxed place, and chat to anyone and everyone waiting for it to [...]
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Ga-ga for Titicaca. Bolivia
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 21 August 2010
Lake Titicaca is the kind of place that you cannot help but enjoy despite sunstroke, stomach bugs, dehydration, borderline starvation and crippling altitude sickness. Nonetheless, we went out of our way to ruin it for ourselves. Plan A was to follow Lonely Planet’s advice to shun ferries leaving directly from the tourist mecca of Copacabana [...]
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Bolivia’s Isla del Sol in photos
Blog: The Brink of Something Else - 6 July 2010
I’ve never been much of a tranquility-hunter on my travels. I like bustling cities, heaving markets, heaving surf, sweaty crowded clubs with a pounding beat. I enjoy museums and galleries, grand old libraries with green desk lights and the smell of polished wood and musty, dusty old books; but I enjoy them for the mental [...]
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Eleven Pictures and Eleven Poems
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 11 May 2010
5/2/10: Copacabana, Bolivia From Isla Del Sol. it’s too cold outside to go swimming at this beach but I wish we could he lives on the beach makes sudden grunting noises and startled, I jump matching, non-matching best four dollars we have spent (except fish massage) lake titicaca highest navigable lake in the world. boo-yah. [...]
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What Could Possibly Upstage Feast of the Cross?
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 10 May 2010
5/1/10: Copacabana, Bolivia It’s a little known secret about our trip, but the entire thing has been based around this one day. We didn’t really want to hike the Annapurna Circuit or play with baby pandas or watch predators chasing prey across the Serengeti. What we wanted was to be in Copacabana for the Feast [...]
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Her Name Was Lola…
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 9 May 2010
4/29/10: Copacabana, Bolivia [Editor's Note: I apologize in advance.] La Paz was nice enough, but there was a Siren’s song of sorts pulling us away from Bolivia’s capital. It started off faint as an old lady standing in the heat, but gradually grew louder… “At the Copa, Copacabana…” (Side note: growing up I always thought [...]
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第八十一天：計劃
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 4 May 2010
今早從 Puno 坐車過境往玻利維亞的 Copacabana. 從早上鬧鐘未響我已醒來就知我有些忐忑不安，原因是我拿的 BN(O) 護照是需要簽證才可進玻國的。但參考過曾到此國一遊的港人之經歷，有些在過境時可即場申請簽證，另一些則不得其門而入，有的關員會叫他們向領事館申請，大概一個月＂便＂可辦妥... 問過幾個朋友，似乎待遇都很參差，那我就決定碰一碰運氣，希望可過關時臨場申請... 在邊境排隊過關 誰知那關員看都沒看我護照的資料頁，只見我在入境紙上填寫英國國籍就趕時間地在我護照上蓋印，yellow fever 的證書也沒有問我拿！當時的我呆站了一會，覺得很難以置信，就連最起碼作狀揭到有相的那一頁對一對人樣都沒有... 我實在應該多謝過去兩天的罷工遊行讓關員們今天忙得不可開交，也讓我漁人得利地暢通無阻！Nice！我可以放下心頭大石並朝著 Salt Flat 進發了！ 到了
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Day 81: Touch the sky!
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 4 May 2010
Views from the window: 4,000m closer to the sky Yes! We made it through Bolivian immigration without a hitch! Crossing this border had been our biggest uncertainty due to vague definitions of visa requirements and having heard of probs with hong kong passports. Our first stop was Copacabana, a small town on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca, for which the world famous Brazilian beach was
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Copacabana - Bolivia
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 3 May 2010
There is no question about it. Lake Titicaca is much more good-looking on the Bolivian side. We took the three-hour bus ride around the west side of the lake to Copacabana, a town very close to the Peru-Bolivia border. It's a good ride, there are plenty of splendid views, a short stop to get your passports stamped, and you're there. It was such an easy border crossing that for the first time I was tempted to get the camera out and start taking a few snaps. But I thought better of it. It's just not worth drawing attention to yourself.
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Copacabana, Bolivia – Not The Barry Manilow One
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 2 May 2010
Well, you know, it’s all I can think of. “Her name was Lola… She was a showgirl” – and yet, Copacabana, Bolivia is nothing like that. It’s a lovely little town next to Lake Titicaca on the Bolivian side. And it’s popular, presumably, for two reasons: the first is for trips on the lake to [...]
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At the Copa, Copacabana
Blog: Cogs Watch - 5 January 2010
Our first taste of Bolivia was a breezy run through immigration consisting of physically walking 500m across the border and countless kangaroo jokes from officials. Entry to Copacabana set us back a whole one boliviano (about $0.15 AU).
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Welcome to Bolivia!
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 1 November 2009
We passed our last night in Peru over a great dinner of cuy (guinea pig), alpaca steaks and a pretty bad litre of red wine. Guinea pig is actually quite tasty, but then again most anything that is fried tastes nice. My entree was accompanied with nice little quinoa croquettes and huacaina sauce. It [...]
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The Hottest Spot North of La Paz
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 14 October 2009
Arriving in Bolivia turned out to be the easiest border crossing I’ve ever done. No queues, no border guards asking for unofficial ‘fees’, no aggressive money changers, no stringent customs checks, no chaos whatsoever. In and out in a couple of minutes, we arrived in Copacabana five minutes later, and checked into the lovely Hotel [...]
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'At the Copa, Copacabana....'
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 23 September 2009
Yeah well not the same one, but whatever, I had that song stuck in my head pretty much the whole time I was there! And I was glad to actually get there really because my original bus (yep another bus story...) I´d booked crashed in the morning and so didn´t pick me up, and then apparently there were road blocks that meant no other buses were leaving until the afternoon.
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