Isla Del Sol - La Paz

We OVERSLEPT! - Missed the sacrifice of the lama.. so we were all gutted, but just about managed to wake for our boat to Isla del Sol.
it was a long boat ride again.. but i am getting used to that. when we arrrived it was an absolutly stunning Island. Some of our group booked into a hostal to stay the night, but i realised i only had another 4 weeks left here till I fly from Buenos Aires to Lima!! I panicked and legged it acros the Island to the south side to catch the boat back to Copacabana with all the others. The walk was beautiful apart from the odd peruvian kid popping out of the trees saying ' un photito?' jesus christ they were annoying! and if you said no, then they would give you the wrong directions to the other side of the island if any!
managed to make the 3hour walk in 2 hours despite the annoying kids trying to mislead me!
When we arrived back in Copacabana we booked ourselves onto the final bus leaving copacabana for la paz, which was at 6.30pm.
When we got on the bus we were told its a tourist bus, so we wuold prett much be alone. We sat ourselves down comfortably, then some guy starts tellling us to get off.. get on another bus! We all freaked out, coz locals were getting on, they were trying to throw us off, and all our stuff was on the bus. We were so lucky that we were in such a big group. Eventually the driver had to get the woman who sold us the tickets to come and sort it out! We couldnt believe what a mess had been made of selling us a few tickets!
Finally we set off, and the bus was banging away. The driver stopped, picked up a brick from the side of the road and started hitting something. When we started driving again the banging continued.. so he just switched on the radio full blast! - Ha ha! Problem fixed the Bolivian way!
After about 2 hours into the drive we stopped because we had reached the edge of the lake, and we had to cross it. We got off the bus and were told to go and pay for a boat across. We then watched our bus drive onto a WOODEN RAFT! followed by all the locals that were on the bus! Then a boy with a big stick start to puch the boat across!! I cant even begin to explain how funny this was to watch! it was absolutly Hilarious!!! I wish i could have taken a photo, but unfortunatly was way too dark! But i did absolutly flip at the fact that beacuse we were white we had to pay to get another boat across! i started shouting at the guy, and his response was that it was too dangerous to go on the raft, because the buses did fall off quite often! - UNACCEPTABLE!!!
On the other side, we waited for our bus, and drove the rest of the way to La Paz. We had been told we would be dropped off at the bus terminal which was next door to the hostal where we wanted to stay. But guess what! the cheecky bastards lied. We drove up a deserted street and were told to get off. resulting in a 10min ride to our hostel in a taxi.!! But at least we had finally arrived.