Next on the list was Lake Titicaca, with 3812m its the highest commercially navigable lake in the world.

So my first stop was Puno, on the Peruvian site of the lake, which is a rather ugly, busy town. From there I did a boat tour to the floating islands and island Taquile.

The floating islands, Uros, are manmade islands, made from routs and covered with reeds, and people really live on them! They have to put more reeds every month and must move the island twice a year because of sinking and rising water levels.

They also build funny floating boats which do not go quicker than 10 meter per minutes. Apparently they used them to flee from a tribe that was threatening them, but they obviously didn't get very far.

Afterwards we visited Taquile Island, which is the only island on the lake where people still wear the real traditional clothing every day and follow the culture from centuries ago! The island was nice, but kind of boring. We took forever to get there, although it's only 35km east of Puno - it took 3 hours. You can imagine how slow the boat was going!!!

The following day I took the first bus to Copacabana, which is also a town on the lake, but on the Bolivian side. To my surprise I seemed to have met at least half of the people on the bus before. There were girls that I met in Lima, guys that I met in the hostel in Cusco, others from the trek up Machu Picchu and Columbians from the trip to the floating islands. Also I met a German girl called Susanne, who I saw a few times on a bus before but never talked to. This time she sat next to me, entertaining me the whole way to Bolivia. I planned to stay a night on the island Isla del Sol and to my surprise most of the people I met before ended up staying at the same hostel on the island as I. We watched the sun set together whilst having a meal in the freezing cold, and the sun rise the next morning too. The island is famous for their beautiful sunsets and sun rises over the lakes.

The following day we went together on a hike across the island to the north part passing various ruins. This island was really beautiful and apparently the birth place of the Inca's. In the eve we took the boat back to Copacabana and I jumped on the bus to La Paz where I was meeting my next tour group.

I kind of started regretting joining a tour group again as I managed really well by myself since my moment of depression in Nasca. Actually I wouldn't have had any problems finding people to travel with through Bolivia, but I guess with this tour group I will be able to see more of Bolivia and Chile than I would by organizing everything myself! Also the group is quite nice, mostly young people (I am one of the oldest for a change). There are people from New Zealand, America, England and Ireland. A nice mix!