I spent a night in Copacabana, a small touristy town on the shore of Lake Titicaca and my first stop in Bolivia. We hopped across the border from Peru into Bolivia at Kasani (strangely also the name of the border town between Zambia and Zimbabwe).

The Candlemas celebrations were still going and there were stalls, a band playing and people dancing and drinking in the street, the smell of chica filled the air and there were a lot of very drunk people! There was also a bull-fight on the edge of town but I only saw it from very far away.

We climbed up the Cerro Calvario hill for a view over town and across the lake at sunset - it was beautiful. Along the way up the hill are large stone crosses depicting the stations of the cross but they had all been destroyed with graffiti and there was litter strewn everywhere along the path - that was sad to see.

I visited the large cathedral, which sticks out in the Copacabana landscape as a huge white building towering over all the small red-brick buildings (it actually looks more like a mosque than a church on the outside). It is brightly painted inside and behind the altar the whole wall decorated in gold and silver with lots of statues.