Titicaca Lake

After my credit card was confiscated 3 hours before departure in La Paz, it was initially super stressful to get it back in time before we set off for Copacabana! Yes, Bolivia also has a Copacabana, of course, the town must lie on Lake Titicaca without a coast. By the way, just like the Bolivian Navy. (WTF ?!? 🙈) Lake Titicaca is a whopping 3,800 meters above sea level and is huge. After not being very impressed by anything other than the sunsets in Copacabana - not even the much-hyped trip to Isla del Sol 🤷🏻♂️ - we crossed over to the Peruvian 🇵🇪 side to Puno. The journey there was already an adventure, as our bus ride was interrupted by a strike before departure. And it looked like this, that we were driven to the outskirts of the city, where a mound of sand had been piled up to block the road, so that we had to walk uphill for about 3 km with our luggage to finally get on the bus on the other side of the next barricade hill. But there were no difficulties at the border... Puno was already much more interesting just because of its size (around 150,000 inhabitants), although in just over 1.5 days we only tried delicious grilled alpaca meat, enjoyed the good hotel and visited the Uros Islands. These islands float like large, anchored rafts in Lake Titicaca and are built by indigenous people who live on them! In the meantime, they have of course also discovered tourism as a source of income, so they are happy to show their huts and boats. It was a strange feeling to walk around on the "islands".