In the morning, we boarded a comfortable tourist bus for the 6 hour trip to Copacabana, just over the Bolivian border on the shore of Lake Titicaca. After 3 hours, driving through some stunning scenery of the lake and mountains, we crossed the border into Bolivia.
Copacabana is a small town, famous for it´s beautiful Cathedral which houses the Virgen de la Candelaria or Dark Virgin, a statue of Mary created by an Incan craftsman and believed to work miracles.
The afternoon of our arrival in Copacabana, a small group of us went on a boat tour to the Islands of the Sun and the Moon, on which were built pre-Incan temples as much as 1000 years BC. After a couple of hours we arrived at the Isla de la Luna, ehere we had a brief walk to see some impressive ruins, and the Temple of the Moon. Another 40 minutes on the boat took us to the Isla del Sol, where after climbing up the "1000 steps" (theres actually 205) we drank from one of the three Incan fountains which represented the three core values of Incan culture - Do not lie, do not steal, do not be lazy.
We crossed the lake back to Copa under the setting sun, providing us with some stunning views.
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