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Crossing into Bolivia (10 April)
We set off on an early bus to Copacabana, Bolivia on the Saturday morning and arrived at midday-ish. We then got another boat across Lake Titicaca to Isla del Sol which is the supposed birthplace of the Incas. We had to climb about 250 steps to our hostel with our big rucksacks which wasn´t fun, and made us really appreciate what the porters do on the Inca Trail. When we got to the "hostel" we were given a butters spaghetti bolognese before we decided to go explore the island to find some ruins. We walked for about half and hour in the wrong direction, and so went back to the "hostel" to start bevving. I say "hostel" cos we pretty much staying in the spare room of some locals´ house, and the room was pretty grim. Fortunately in Copacabana we had found 20cl bottles of Johnny Walker Red Label for £3 and so invested in one each. We drank some of that, went for a couple of beers, and then were taken to a random restaurant for another gash meal. We headed back to the hostel, got pretty merry finishing off the Johnny Walker, playing loud music, having general s*** chat and then even woke up the owners to try and get more beer! In hindsight we were d*** that night.
We got the boat back to Copacabana the next day and then a four hour bus to La Paz, Bolivia´s capital, and the highest capital city in the world.
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