Lake Titicaca at the Copa...Copacabana!

After saying goodbye to Cusco with a night on the town with our guide, we made a very quick stopover in Puno before heading into Bolivia. We stayed for a couple of days at Lake Titicaca in Copacabana. Our hostal, La Cupula, was a wonderful recommendation from our friends Andrew and Laurel. It was definitely the most comfortable and most beautiful place that we stayed. With views overlooking the lake from our front door and hammocks swinging in the front gardens, it couldn´t have been any better.

We took a boat out to Isla del Sol for he day and hiked from the north end of the island to the south and saw pre-Incan ruins as well as the historical stone from which the Incans were born. It was a beautiful and surprisingly quiet hike along the ridges of the islands´mountains.

For each meal while we were there, Derek ate some form of trucha (trout) - whether it was fried, sauteed, stuffed, or baked, it didn´t matter as long as he could eat it fresh from Lake Titicaca. It was quite delicious!

We were sad to leave Copacabana behind, but we pressed on for all that was to come in La Paz...