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| Bolivian ladies wrestling - bizarre! |
We stayed in La Paz one more day- long enough for me to go and watch the Bolivian ladies wrestling, so strange! It’s Bolivian ladies in traditional dress fighting lycra clad men, the crowd loved it though!
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| Just minding his own business and enjoying the view, before water carrying duties! |
From there we went to Copacabana for one night then over to Isla Del Sol for a night which is on Lake Titicaca. The island was beautiful. The place we stayed in had no electricity so we had to use candles at night (whilst watching a film on the laptop!) and all the water was brought up from the lake by donkeys. The altitude made everything really tough. It’s the highest lake in the world apparently.
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| Highest point on Isla Del Sol |
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Daily life on Isla Del Sol- just putting the llamas away for the night!
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We managed to walk to the highest point on the island and the views from the top were spectacular- we could see right over to Peru. We went back to the main land the next day and caught a night bus over the border to Peru and all the way up to Cuzco. Bolivia has been amazing definitely one of our favourite places so far, it is just a beautiful place with really friendly people.
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| The view from our bedroom of the sunrise- amazing! |
We arrived in Cuzco at about 3 in the morning (much earlier than we were told!) very dazed and confused, I managed to leave my MP3 player on the bus – I still have the headphones though, not sure how I managed that! A lady at the bus station was advertising a hostel and because there was no other option we went there to get some sleep- big mistake. The walls were paper thin and there was a hole in the wall from our room to the corridor so we got woken up early, the pillows were filled with cement or something similar so were quite uncomfortable, and when we had a shower in the morning there were actual mushrooms growing in the gaps between the tiles! Amazing really they were not small, big enough to eat- which after the measly breakfast we were considering doing. We then checked in to a lovely little hotel for the rest of our time in Cuzco so no harm done.
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| Sacred valley- that is sacred corn growing at the bottom! |
We did a day tour of the Sacred Valley which has lots of Inca sites in the warm up to Machu Picchu the next day. We had to get up at 3.30am to get in the queue for the bus to Machu Picchu, they only let 400 people go up Wayna Picchu which is a viewpoint so we had to get there early. We managed to get the tickets and then wandered around Machu Picchu by ourselves for a while then had a tour for a couple of hours. When we first got there we couldn’t see much as it was really misty but the mist cleared later for the tour and just long enough to get some pictures from the top- then it rained and rained! It was really interesting though and very impressive. The photos don’t really do it justice.
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| Machu Picchu, Wayna Picchu is the mountain in the background- we climbed that! |
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| View from the top of Wayna Picchu. |
From there we have mostly been on buses! We have travelled about 4000km in the last couple of weeks. We stopped off at Quito for Good Friday and saw the Easter procession (and were in it by accident for a while!). We are currently in Bogota, Colombia which is a lovely city, catching up on sleep and meals!
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| In Quito, Good Friday Procession. |
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