We waited in reception from 7am for our bus that arrived at 7:40am. We then drove around La Paz to all the other hostels picking people up. We eventually left La Paz at 9am after driving past our hostel again at about 8:45am!!
We got some great views of La Paz on the way out so that made up for our lack of sightseeing a bit! I felt so car sick though after winding our way around the city. The bus ride was beautiful. We arrived in a very sunny and hot Copacabana at 12:30 and there was a transfer bus waiting to take us to our hotel which was an unexpected surprise. The hotel Utima was really cute. We had a good room with a very nice view over the lake. We dumped our stuff and went to walk around the town. I really like the town, it is full of very colourful stalls selling goodies made out of llama wool. There were loads of bars and restaurants and it had a cute little marina area. We went to get lunch and Pete got this double American burger that was huge. People walking in kept asking him what it was and ordering the same 🙂
We were so tired (this altitude is sapping our energy) so we had a siesta. We are really feeling the altitude and the short walk up the hill to our hotel was leaving us really breathless. It is so strange and it is horrible feeling tired all the time.
We went to find a restaurant for dinner and landed up bumping into Thomas again. He was with an Italian guy Giovanni and another German guy Ferhat. We all went to dinner. It was funny, so many people the guys knew from their bus trip walked into the same restaurant as us and also an English guy we met in Turpiza who is cycling his way around South America. We had a great evening chatting and the food was good – I ate an entire huge pizza and could hardly move afterwards! It was a great evening 🙂
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