After the Colca Canyon, I spent the night in Arequipa. I woke up early the next day to try to take the first bus to Puno. From there, I would figure out how to get to Copacabana...

I ran into Loro, a French guy who was staying at La Reyna and on a different Colca tour. We took the bus together..quite uneventful. Got to Puno only to find that the ´tourist´Copacabana busses go in the morning only. But there is another way...to take a combi! Well, I needed to get there, so I did it.

Loro walked with me to the other Terminal Terrestre. He caught a cab for the center, and I caught a combi..for a few hours.

The border crossing was extremely easy! The combi dropped us off in Yunguyo, walk to the Peru immigration..stamp, walk through the arch to the Bolivian Immigration, stamp, and there was a combi waiting for me heading to Copacabana.

I stayed at the Emperador, which was a decent hostel. The lady who worked there was only 25 years old, but had 2 kids, aged 10 and 8. The girls were so cute. I walked around Copacabana...thirsting for a Coke. I walked into a cafe, and ran into Jen and Tony, who I met in Chugchilan. We hung out for a while until they had to leave. I walked around the markets, got an egg sandwich off the street for 1.5 bolivianos (less than 20 cents), and headed back to the hostel for the night.

The next day, I went to the Isla del Sol. I took the Titicaca tours boat, and met some really cool Germans - Annika and Kai. We talked most of the way. But then I had the Isla del Sol and Isla de Luna tour, so we parted once we got to the Isla.

I got ´guided´tour of the north part. It was pretty lame...the guy just walked with us and pointed out a few things. Not the history that I was hoping to get from him.

Anyways, had to walk back to the boat...ran into Tony and Jen again. The boat went to the Isla de Luna, which was a waste of time. We had 30 minutes there..1 ruin, but you had t pay 5 bolivianos to see. I think maybe 1 guy on the boat did it.

After that, went back to the south end of the Isla del Sol..got to walk up some stairs there for about an hour, and had to return with the boat.

A group of us went and had dinner at an Arabic place - Annika, Kai, Frank, Leo, and Cassie. Then met up with another guy, Ronen. Leo ordered the food, a mixed plate of Hummus, kebab, etc..It was quite good.

We met up with an Argentinian guy from the trip at a cafe-bar and hung out for the rest of the night. They are all really cool people, and one of the best nights out I have had.