Bolivia

Well so as not to keep you in suspense for too long we managed to make it to bolivia this morning. It was an eventful night as Liana´s stomach started becoming upset prior to departure on our night bus. It was a problem too tough for even for a good dose of gravol and after considerable discomfort the vomitting began at about midnight. This continued on untill the early morning managing too keep everything contained (although disturbing those around us I am sure). We rolled up to a fork in the road at about 8am where we were told that those heading for copacabana were to take this little combi(small van) the rest of the way. I guess the first sign should have been when the driver asked me to help pushstart the van....ya right. Finally we got a boost and took off down the road which lasted about 10 minutes before the combi completely died. So here we were sitting on the side of the road, Liana still feeling quite sick and weak while our driver pulled out the passanger seat and started tinkering with the engine(which is apparently under the front seats). Thankfully another combi came by and we hopped on and headed to the border. This part was actually quite smooth and we were soon enough off in another combi to copacabana, just a few minutes away.

Copacabana is a small little town on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the biggest and highest lake in the world. It is an intersting landscape, they call it the altiplano (high plains) and it is quite different than what we have seen thus far. It is a more dry climate, mostly flat with some low rolling hills dotted here and there with some vegitation. Liana is starting to feel a bit better, we got a nice little hostel room and had a light lunch. If all is well we will head off to the island of the sun tomorrow to see some ruins.