After the Inca Trail we took a few days to rest, do laundry and try to figure out what to do next. After a little planning we thought we would pay a visit to Lake Titicaca, the world's largest high altitude lake. Our guide from Arequipa, Luis said that because Lake Titicaca is split between Peru and Bolivia the name also is split between both countries: Titi is Peruvian and Caca is Bolivian. Keep in mind that Luis was himself a Peruvian. Before we left Cusco, however met up with Mike and Gino (remember them from Arequipa) for a night on the town and to try some local cuisine. We spent several hours at Paddies Pub in the Plaza de Armas and finished the evening off with some MacDonald's. That's not the local cuisine I'm talking about though. The next day we went to a restaraunt to try our hands at some cuy. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term cuy, it means guinea pig. Although we were told it was a delicacy, we thought that we would enjoy cuy more than we did. It tasted kind of like fish but it had the texture of pork. So we hopped a night bus from Cusco to Copacabana, Bolivia. We had heard a lot of mixed reviews about Bolivia, but there was one thing everyone agreed on: it’s cheap! Copacabana is a small tourist town located along the shore of Lake Titicaca and it doesn’t have much going for it other than the surrounding nature. So we decided to take a couple days to relax and enjoy the sunsets before heading over to Isla del Sol, a small island 2 hours by boat from Copacabana. We took a boat from Copacabana to the North side of the island then hiked for three hours to the south of the island where we spent a couple of nights. The smells and sounds of being on a lake made us both feel a little closer to home, until we would hear a donkey honk. The weather on the island is mostly sunny during the day but late evening, overnight and early morning it rained pretty hard. The pictures below show some different views of the lake. Our last day on the island we hiked down to a small village on the other side of the town with a little friend (a really cute puppy who showed us the way) and bargained with a local to rent his little row/sail boat. Unfortunately we don’t have any sailing skills so we opted to row for a little while. It was great fun rowing around the bay and enjoying the tranquillity of the island.
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