Bolivia!

 This morning we awoke bright and early and left Puno, Peru and took the Bus to Copacabana, Bolivia!  It took two hours to reach the small shamble of a border crossing which is apparently run on the honor system.  While you need stamps to both exit Peru and enter Bolivia there was no one controlling whether or not you went into the correct offices to recieve the proper documents.  As a result locals walk freely from one side to the other.

From the border it was another ten minutes by bus to the town of Copacabana which sits on the shore of Lake Titicaca (hee hee).  Colin and I both felt the excitment of being in a new counrty and agreed that it feels like we are starting a whole new advebture. The town of Copacabana is small and full of both local and international tourists.  The impressive lake could be mistaken for the ocean and is the highest large body of water in the world at 3820 meters above sea level!  Bolivia is considerably less expensive than Peru and as a result we have been eating at fancy resuarants and staying at nice hotels for meer dollors and cents.  

We climbed a viewpoint which was busting with locals performing some kind of religous ceremony with the burning of candle and inscence.  Several locals were also buying model houses and burning and blowing them up with fire crackers....not quite sure of the religous significance but we were entertained by the spectical.

Tomorrow we are packing our day bags with a few essentails and heading to Isla del Sol ( Island of the Sun)  where we plan to stay two days and hike from one side of the island to the other before heading to Bolivia’s capital, La Paz.