We changed our plans and entered Bolivia in the southern town of Villazon, spent a day in Tupiza, and started the Salar de Uyuni tour from there. The tour ends in Uyuni, from where we will head to Sucre for a couple of days before continuing on to La Paz. Then we are off to Sorata for our first trek (3 days), and then to Lake Titicaca where we will do another 3-day trek around Isla del Sol.
Saturday, June 3, 2006 at 3:44PM Sorata lies at an elevation of 2700m, and our destination for the day was Laguna Chillata, at an elevation of 4200m. That’s a gain of 1500m in one day! Yikes!
Saturday, June 3, 2006 at 3:47PM Today it has been exactly one month since we arrived in Buenos Aires. During brunch we reflected on how much we have seen during the past month, but also on how fast it has gone by.
Saturday, June 3, 2006 at 3:49PM Forty-five minutes later another Copa bus came along, but he didn’t stop either. We started trying to flag down micros that were going to Tiquina, a town half-way to Copa, so we could at least get part of the way and then maybe take a taxi from there.
Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 2:43PM The plan for Copacabana was to spend the first day wandering around the sites in and around the town, gather our supplies for camping on Isla del Sol, and leave the following day for the Island. Unfortunately our plans didn’t work out quite as planned.
Wednesday, June 7, 2006 at 2:46PM Lake Titicaca’s name is derived from the original name for the Island of the Sun, which was known to early inhabitants as Titi Khar’ka, Rock of the Puma, after a large sacred rock on the northern tip of the Island.