Woke nice and early to walk to the border. it was only 15mins away, but the other guys decided to go by motor taxi. (motorbike rikshaw) At the border they wanted to search us all for drugs.. but also just asked - do you have any cocaine or marujana on you! Well of course we are going to say no!
I just asked where the dogs were to check.. and they told me they were at the vet! - yeah right!
Finally reached Bolivia, and took a taxi 8km to Copacabana! WOW absolutly beautiful! it was so stunning like you wouldnt believe. I was expecting an ugly place just like Puno.. so i was very pleasantly surprised.
I also couldnt wait for all the cheap stuff i had heard about! Unfortunatly... Internet was 10bolivianos. thats like 5times the price of internet in Peru! I was horrified. The food was also pretty expensive.
This place was lovely, but something i noticed was that it was FULL of hippies. just loads of white people with dreads and making jewelry.
That evening we climbed up to a small moutain they have with statues at the top to watch the beautiful sunrise. We then headed down and cooked ourselves some dinner, and headed out to the bars. The bars were good fun! I managed to actually chat to an Israili. Surprisingly he pulled away from the pack, and told me how by being israili he automatically gets 10% discounts in restaurnts. - No idea why this is, but hey.. and all menus are in Hebrew!
I then got chatted up by a peruvian who wanted to braid my hair.. that was some pretty interesting chat. You would all laugh if you saw his dreads!!!
Later that night whilst chatting to some Canadians I found out that of course tomorrow is the summer solctice, i-e 21st June - longest day! the celebrations include watching the sunrise, fires, and the sacrifice of a lama. this exciting news made us all finish our evening early so we could get up to watch it all!!
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