Bolivia

Copacabana, Bolivia - a town on Lake Titicaca
un pueblo cerca del Lago Titicaca

There is so much to see in Bolivia, but we were only able to be there for a little while... Even so, what we saw was amazing and beautiful. Lake Titicaca is huge! We first went to there while we were still in Peru, actually. We were able to visit the man-make floating reed islands of Uros. Amazing! When we crossed over into Bolivia, we went to Isla del Sol, an island on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca. Once we were back on the mainland, we traveled to La Paz for a day and then to a dusty old town reminiscent of a western movie. The town is called Tupiza. In Tupiza we decided to take a tour on horseback of the surrounding countryside. Little did we know that we ended up taking the tour where you had to stay on the horse for SEVEN hours! We were in so much pain, but at least we had run out of cash (there wasn't an ATM in this town) and had to survive on crackers and orange soda for two days! Just another adventure! We celebrated New Year's Eve on a train on our way out of Bolivia.

Hay mucho de ver en Bolivia, pero solamente podiamos quedarnos un rato... Sin embargo, lo que vimos era soprendente y hermosa. El Lago Titicaca es gigante! Fuimos allí por la primera vez cuando estabamos en Peru, actualmente. Maravillosa! Cuando cruzamos a Bolivia, fuimos a la Isla del Sol, una isla en el lado boliviano del Lago Titicaca. Cuando estabamos por la tierra otra vez, viajemos a La Paz por un dia, y despues a un pueblo lleno de polvo que era parecida a algo de un video "western." El pueblo se llama Tupiza. En Tupiza, decidimos tomar un "tur" cabalgado del paisaje alrededor. No supimos que tomemos el "tur" en que tuvimos que estar cabalgadas por SIETE horas! Tuvimos mucho dolor, pero por lo menos no tuvimos dinero (no hubiera ni un cajero en este pueblo) y tuvimos que sobrevivir con galletas y gaseosa de naranja por dos dias! Una aventura mas! Celebremos el Año Nuevo en un tren en el camino afuera de Bolivia.