Catch up.

So we are finally in Bolivia. Copacabana is a wonderful little tourist trap of a town on the shores of Lake Titicaca, very close to Peru. Today we took an hour long hike and learned that when 4000m above sea level the tortoise truely does win the race. We stopped every twenty feet or so to catch our breath. We have Bus Tickets booked to LaPaz on the 24th, where we will have to buy our tickets for Cochabamba, and hopefully leave the same night, to arrive in Cochabamba on the morning of the 25th. Tomorrow we are going to go check out some ruins on the Isla del Sol (Island of the Sun) its were the Inca creation story says life began.

We are both feeling alot better than we were, albeit slightly light headed, and heavy legged. We spent last night in Puno and took a crappy rushed tour of the Floating Islands, made out of reeds. Not fun, I wish we had had the time to hire someone to take us over so we could explore on our own time, but we only had one afternoon in the area. This morning we crossed the border to Bolivia. It was fairly chaotic, we didn´t catch that we needed to get our exit stamp from Peru so we had to run (which is not easy up here) back and forth from Bolivia to Peru, and nearly missed our bus out of the neutral zone.

Before Puna we spent a few days in Arequipa being sick, and visiting Monestario Santa Cantalina, pictures will be coming soon. Its a city within a city completely cut from the outside world for nearly 400 years, where rich nuns lived it up in style.