Today I woke up at about 8am feeling totally refreshed (I'm a real morning bird when traveling even after skipping a night), had a fantastic monster breakfast in my hotel, visited the bits of La Paz I still wanted to see and then took a bus to Copacabana by lake Titicaca where I am now.

This Copacabana is not the one of the song (that's about a beach of the same name in Rio de Janeiro) but it's still a nice place and a sort of pilgrimage site for Bolivians. Today literally every car, bus and truck in Copacabana was adorned with flowers and confetti to go through a blessing ceremony in front of the cathedral, quite a sight. I climbed the hill next to town to watch the sunset along with a hundred other tourists (many people who are on a Peru tour come to this side of the lake to visit Isla del Sol, which makes Copacabana the only touristy place in Bolivia), but the clouds spoiled the show and I just went down early.

I came here to set out on a two-day hike on Isla del Sol, the holy island of the Inkas, but since my blisters make walking painful I'm not sure what I'm gonna do yet. I'll see tomorrow morning.

I mainly came online to edit and finish my Huayna Potosi story below and add captions to the pics, and that's done now, so now I'm gonna eat in one of the hundred restaurants that offer trout from the lake. Ciao!