Hi Everyone

We travelled from La Paz to Copacabana by bus, but the funny thing is, the bus gets put on a raft across a bit of the lake in Bolivia to avoid having to cross the border into Peru and then back again into Bolivia. Its weird, cos we got put on a seperate little boat and you look across to the bus and it just looks like it is floating across the lake. We got to Copacabana whcih is a cute little town by the side of Lake Titicaca. Bolivians come here for there summer holidays, because Bolivia is in the middle of south America it is the nearest alot of people come to seeing the sea. Its a really chilled out place. Me and Tim spent alot of time wondering around the inca ruins around the outskirts of town, all of which are up steep hills 'good practice for the inca trail' We got a boat to the island of the sun, it took three hours and was a bit bumpy. Tim said that there was no way he was going ont he boat again. The island is a spirtitual inca island and we walked across it which took most of the day. Really spectacular scenery and we saw our first Llamas, Yippee! In fact we saw loads of them. The next day we got a taxi to the headland. Our taxi driver was well dodgy and seemed to do everything the rough guide said to be aware of from taxi drivers. Inviting his mates into the taxi and stopping at random places in the middle of no where for no apparent reason. For the first part of the walk, me and Tim were paranoid that the taxi driver was going to jump out the bushes. The walk was lovely in the end, walking through lots of villages and tiny bays, looking at the mountains and seeing what rural life was like in Bolivia and again we saw some Llamas. They look like a cross between sheep and camels. Me and Tim were absolutely shattered as we walked into Copacabana, it had took us 4 and a half hours and we really wondered if we would be able to walk 8 hours a day uphill on the Inca trail. The rest of the time spent in Copacabana was spent in hammocks and drinking pisco sours and eating.