After making the most of my last night in La Paz, I left Mike who decided to stay on for the 6 nations test, and headed through to Isle Del Sol which is an island on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. The lake is known as one of the highest fresh water lakes in the world and is surrounded by various islands inhabited by local Bolivians. The trip took about 4 hours in total and included a ferry ride across to the small town of Cocacabana. Not the greatest coastal town I have ever seen but it catered for all our basic needs before we caught another 1.5 hour ferry through to the south end of Isle De Sol. On our arrival we were requested to pay the usual landing t
ax of 5Bs and had to climb 210 steps to our hostel Las Islas. We manged to pick up a 3 bed hostel ( myself, Dorris (Austrian) and Adam (South African), for 25bs each which was our cheapest accommodation to date. Dinner was a simple set menu consisting of soup, fish and banana with chocolate sauce. The next days itinery consisted of catching a ferry to the north of the island, finding various Inca ruins and then doing a 20km walk back to the south side of the island. The walk was quite strenuous but i manged to get some amazing scenery shots and it was good to walk off the previous 3 night binges of La Paz. Mike joined late in the afternoon and then we all headed off the island to catch our bus to our next destination the following day.
After making the most of my last night in La Paz, I left Mike who decided to stay on for the 6 nations test, and headed through to Isle Del Sol which is an island on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. The lake is known as one of the highest fresh water lakes in the world and is surrounded by various islands inhabited by local Bolivians. The trip took about 4 hours in total and included a ferry ride across to the small town of Cocacabana. Not the greatest coastal town I have ever seen but it catered for all our basic needs before we caught another 1.5 hour ferry through to the south end of Isle De Sol. On our arrival we were requested to pay the usual landing t
ax of 5Bs and had to climb 210 steps to our hostel Las Islas. We manged to pick up a 3 bed hostel ( myself, Dorris (Austrian) and Adam (South African), for 25bs each which was our cheapest accommodation to date. Dinner was a simple set menu consisting of soup, fish and banana with chocolate sauce. The next days itinery consisted of catching a ferry to the north of the island, finding various Inca ruins and then doing a 20km walk back to the south side of the island. The walk was quite strenuous but i manged to get some amazing scenery shots and it was good to walk off the previous 3 night binges of La Paz. Mike joined late in the afternoon and then we all headed off the island to catch our bus to our next destination the following day.
So are you in Bolivia or Peru now? Either way, you seem to be having a blast. Keep us posted on your journey!
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