We made the journey from La Paz to Copacabana on Monday morning. The journey wasn't too bad and took around 4 hours. It included having to hop off the bus to board a small boat and having to watch our bus perilously board a separate boat and cross the lake. When we arrived in Copacabana, the weather was pretty rubbish with heavy rain and the clouds surrounding the village. Our first task was to find some accommodation for the night. As its quite a small village, we walked to the lake edge where most of the accommodation seemed to be located. We were immediately drawn to the newest looking building which was a brilliant white with glass balconies. As we got closer the owner was outside and started shouting amigos at us. In some expert Spanglish we deciphered that the price was 100 Bs each which was a bit out of our price range. As we said no thanks and moved away, he started to lower the price with alarming ease and when he got to 60 Bs each our ears pricked up. We headed in for a look around and as we were happy with the room, the key question was the wifi. He assured us that they had wifi and I asked for the password to test this claim. Sheepishly, he gave us the password but it would not allow me to connect to the Internet. After some not so excellent Spanglish, he then claimed that the wifi would not work as it was smoky in Copacabana. I'm not sure what this means but as it was the password which was the problem, we advised that we would have a look around town and come back later on. Liars!!! We walked straight along the lake front and into the nicest looking hotel we could see which had balconies. As we went in the owner / receptionist began telling us all of the benefits of staying here and the price of 120 Bs each. We advised that this was too much and he immediately came down to 100 Bs each. In English we said 90 Bs each was our limit, only for him to pull out a piece of paper and write 80 Bs each down. We snapped his hand off and headed up to the room. Finally, our lack of Spanish pays dividends!!!

After settling in, we went out for a spot of lunch after not having anything to eat all day. As the weather had picked up, we sat down outside of one of the copious cafes near the lake front. Here, we have found that they are definitely a fan of the set menu where you get 3 courses for a normally stupid price of about £1.60. Beth had soup and some trout while I had some cheese empanadas. For tea we met up with Gareth and Jared who we travelled with for a couple of weeks in Argentina and Bolivia. We went to an excellent restaurant called La Orilla and had a really good night. We said our goodbyes and will meet up with them again when we are in New Zealand.

Today, we awoke to brilliant blue sky and decided to make the most of the day. After having a pretty good breakfast at our hotel, Hotel Estrella, we went to see the impressive cathedral in the main plaza. We then walked up the hill called Cerro Calvario which overlooks the village. The views as we were both walking up and from the top were spectacular and Lake Titicaca really does look more like a sea than a lake due to its absolute vastness. It was a pretty tiring walk up due to both the incline and the altitude which we are at but it was definitely worth it. After returning down, we again headed for one of the set menu specials on the lake front and relaxed in the brilliant sunshine.

We have booked our tickets to Isla del Sol for tomorrow morning which is a 2 hour boat ride away. We will spend a night there before heading back to Copacabana for another night and then onto our 4th country of Peru as we edge closer to the Inca Trail.