Bolivia and beyond.

Ahhh, once again I have fallen behind on my postings, I am going to blame this, not on my massive amount of disorganisation, but rather on a lack of internet in Bolivia and Peru.

Moving on Bolivia I was really very sad to see that surly bunch go, leaving them behind on the shores of Copacabana, Lake Titicaca (the highest altitude lake in the world). But before heading over the boarder to my final South American country, I got to see what I decided was one of my top 10 sunsets, from the rooftop terrace of our hotel, looking out over the lake.

We were also terribly lucky to have a TV as this provided some 6 am entertainment, to watch the Royal Wedding! Beautiful - reinforcing you can take the girl out of England but not the England out of Girl (I followed that up by watching the Eurovision Song Contest in a Bar in Cuzco...but thats another tale altogether!)

Anyway, with reports that the border was closed we wondered (and I secretly hoped) that I may in fact be stuck in Bolivia for a good long time, but when we got there we were lucky and crossed the border with no trouble at all.

So into Puno, Peru. and after everyone had said it was a dump I was pleasantly suprised that it wasn´t that bad, and we had a lovely boat trip to the Islas Flotantes (floating islands). The islands are made of blocks of reeds, and 200 people live on 60 islands. It was very impressive. You can even stay overnight on them, and although we didn´t have time, we heard some people having a blast at island Karaoke.

That evening, after being served by a Johnny Depp Lookalike (brilliant!) and trying my first Inka Kola (think Irn Bru crossed with Coca Cola, but illuminous yellow) we went back to the hotel (thats  right...a posh hotel!) in preparation for our bus to Cusco the next morning, which....HAD A TOILET! Now I know this isn´t a big deal to anyone else...but the idea of peeing at the side of the road whilst local women stared at me like an alien had not filled me with joy and I was very chuffed that I would not have to repeat the experience. Good Old Peru!