After paying our hefty $135 visa fee to cross the border into Bolivia, it was only a few kilometer ride to the tourist town of Copacabana.
Copacabana is a huge Catholica pilgrimage town. Every February and August (I think?) people from all over Bolivia, and probably South America come to the church here to visit the Virgen de Copacabana. It is only during these two holidays that the move the glass cage with the Virgen inside. They have superstitions that if they move her on other days that there will be large floods.
Another reason people come to Copacabana is because it is the easiest to visit the largest natural island on Lake Titicaca from here. The island is called Isla del Sol, or Sun Island. For the tours you can opt to get dropped off on the northern part of the island and hike 15 km to the souther part, or you can roam around the northern part and then get back on the boat to the southern part. Since we just did the inca trail a week ago, we decided we would not be hiking. So, we started exploring the northern part of the island searching for some of the Inca ruins we heard about. We got lost twice, but finally ended up finding them.
Pics from Copacabana here
That was pretty much it for Copacabana. One other note about this town: it's filled with dirty, grungy hippies. I haven't quite figured out the reason why, but there were so many of them.
On that note, take care!
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