Copacabana, Bolivia

After crossing the border into Bolivia we ended up in the resort town of Copacabana. It wasn't originally on our itinerary, but everyone told us this was the place to be if you want to see Lake Titicaca, so decided to change our plans last-minute.

Here we got a really nice hotel with direct view of Lake Titicaca.


It was spacious and the beds are comfy. But that's where the first class treatment ended. For heating at night, you have to pay extra. What you get for heating is a dysfunctional electrical heater that you plug into the wall. Except the plug in the wall is totally destroyed and when you plug something in it, you see sparks. The heater itself only has 1 our of 2 heating elements working. I went down to the reception to get it fixed, and after half an hour of messing around with plyers and a fleet of about 10 dysfunctional heaters, they managed to make one of them work properly. Joy!

The shower looked normal at first, but water is heated with an electrical device whose wire is hanging over your head. I lost my appetite for showers that night. Welcome to Bolivia.

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I just saw a woman run after a flock of sheep, which apparently ran away from her in the middle of the town.