Reada, Dave and I spent Easter weekend at Lake Titicaca, which sits on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It is the highest elevation lake in the world at 12,500 feet and is absolutely beautiful. We flew into Puno, which sits on the Peruvian side, and spent a night there. We got up early the next morning and took a 3 hour bus ride across the border (we actually had to get out of the bus and walk across the border) into Bolivia and then got on a boat to go to Isla del Sol, the Island of the Sun, which is in the middle of the lake on the Bolivian side. We stayed at a beautiful ecolodge on top of a mountain on Isla del Sol.
We got off the boat on the island and had some confusion about where we needed to go. Someone said we needed to go to the north of the island, a 3 hour walk over mountains, but others said our hotel was on the south side of the island where we were. This young Bolivian boy took it upon himself to get us to our hotel, in exchange for 5 US dollars and a couple of soles to buy notebooks for school. We hiked up an incredibly long path that felt even longer and harder because of the altitude and the fact that we were carrying our own packs. It was rough, but we made it.
As you can see from these pictures, the hike was completely worth it. Our hotel, an ecolodge with cute bungalows, sat on top of a mountain and had incredible views from every direction. We were overwhelmed by beauty every time we stepped outside. It was very quiet and peaceful and just a perfect spot. I think it is the most beautiful place I have been to in South America so far.
After spending the night at our ecolodge, we hiked back to the boat for the trip back to Copacabana where we picked up the bus back to Puno. This picture was taken on the boat back from the island and it shows how beautiful Lake Titicaca is. Everything about it is so dramatic - tall snow-capped mountains, blue, blue water, and picturesque little islands.
We got off the boat on the island and had some confusion about where we needed to go. Someone said we needed to go to the north of the island, a 3 hour walk over mountains, but others said our hotel was on the south side of the island where we were. This young Bolivian boy took it upon himself to get us to our hotel, in exchange for 5 US dollars and a couple of soles to buy notebooks for school. We hiked up an incredibly long path that felt even longer and harder because of the altitude and the fact that we were carrying our own packs. It was rough, but we made it.
As you can see from these pictures, the hike was completely worth it. Our hotel, an ecolodge with cute bungalows, sat on top of a mountain and had incredible views from every direction. We were overwhelmed by beauty every time we stepped outside. It was very quiet and peaceful and just a perfect spot. I think it is the most beautiful place I have been to in South America so far. 
After spending the night at our ecolodge, we hiked back to the boat for the trip back to Copacabana where we picked up the bus back to Puno. This picture was taken on the boat back from the island and it shows how beautiful Lake Titicaca is. Everything about it is so dramatic - tall snow-capped mountains, blue, blue water, and picturesque little islands.
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