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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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Travel Photo of the Day: Sunset at Isla del Sol, Bolivia
Blog: Two Backpackers - 11 February 2012
2 Backpackers - Travel Photo of the Day: Sunset at Isla del Sol, Bolivia Subscribe Now -> http://feeds.feedburner.com/TwoBackpackersThe best of Bolivia After a full day of hiking from the north part of Isla del Sol island to the south, we took a rest at a restaurant with an amazing view of Lake Titicaca. The hours passed and the sun began to hide behind the horizon. The sunset slowly revealed some amazing colors [...]
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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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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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Isla Del Sol – Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 2 May 2010
According to some, this is where it all began. All right, not all. But the way some people tell it, the Incan dynasty rose out of the lake here and proceeded to take over most of South America – that’s how powerful that water is. Don’t mess with it. Now, there’s not much going on [...]
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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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Day 80: Stuck in Puno!
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 1 May 2010
Floating Islands of the Uros people - everything built from reeds! Buses aren't running today because the road to Bolivia is blocked by a strike. We have no option but to stay another night and leave tomorrow instead. Not a bummer because I have a lot of admin stuff to catch up on anyway (tax returns from a past life!! Shit!). We visited the floating islands of the Uros people yesterday. I
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Cusco, around Lake Titicaca, and on to La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Trip Down - 29 April 2010
After Machu Picchu we returned to Cusco for a night. At the Norton’s (Rat) Pub on the plaza we met Micha, Igor who I met in Medellin and Chessi who I’d been riding with in Equador and Peru. On Saturday morning we left Cusco driving out through the bedraggled end of city and into the [...]
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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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