So I woke up in Copacabana not sure what to do. My open blisters were wet and painful, but I remembered I had bought special blisterbandages from Hansaplast for my Nepal trek, not used them and brought them on this trip. I put them on - they turned out to look like oval patches of translucent skin - and immediately noticed I could walk again. So I set out on a trek and after a few hours didn't feel my blisters anymore and haven't since. Rarely been such a satisfied customer :)

Anyway I first walked the 17km from Copacabana to Yamupata (the cape of the peninsula that stretches towards Isla del Sol) because the LP said it has fantastic scenery. I enjoyed the first hour because I was walking through authentic Bolivian country side, but the landscape was nothing special and the second half of the walk was dull. Since I was all alone I paid a guy to row me across to Isla del Sol which took half an hour. I checked the sights on the southern part of the isle, wasn't impressed, and checked into a hotel.

Isla del Sol is the island in Lake Titicaca on which, according to Inca legend, the sun and the first Inca king were born. This morning I traversed the island from south to north along the high route over the hills. The LP calls it a magic place where you have to spend at least two days, but I reached the other end in three hours being once again completely underwhelmed. The landscapes in places like Pisac, Sillustani and Palca were much, much nicer. The last part of my walk, around the northern end of Isla del Sol, was nice too though.

Anyway I took a boat back straight to Copacabana, which took almost as long as walking, and immediately got on a minibus to Puno (in Peru) along with three Frenchies (50% of the backpackers here are French). At the border, 10 minutes from Copacabana, the minibus deserted us while we were going through customs, so my goodbye from Bolivia, a country I really loved and want to go back to which is very rare for me, was a rip-off. I wanted to cross the border again to go strangle the bitch who sold us that minibus ride but didn't of-course (would cost a day).

We made it to Puno by chicken bus, and now (10pm) I'm waiting for a hotel room to become available. Tomorrow morning I'm heading straight to Arequipa to start the last stretch of this journey back to Lima along the coast. Here's my travel map again: