Peru to Bolivia (Copacabana, Bolivia)

It's always sad for me leaving a country I've been in for a while. My last night in Arequipa, Leticia and I went out for dinner and reminisced on our time there. It's interesting, we have had so many temporary seperations through out our time together, but still continue to travel together. We have just realized that we've known each other for 6 months already. For dinner conversatino, we made a bunch of top 5 lists; friends, places, memories, favorite things, etc.

The next day we took a day bus to where we are now, it took two buses and about only 11 hours. The views were amazing, going through the mountains, surrounded by clouds, lakes, rolling hills and trees.  I am still in awe sometimes of the natural views of South America. The border crossing was interesting. Leticia and I were the very last ones to go through the line up last time when we entered Peru and I told her, let's not be last again. Well, lo and behold, due to Leticia being an American citizen she was the only one on our bus that had to purchase a tourist visa. And me, I was taken into the Peruvian Police Office centre for a special check, in which I was oddly suspicious that the cop was too nice and was going to try and scam me for money, but nope.  I then took my obligatory border crossing photo to prove I've made it to the next country, but as I clicked away with a Japanese family, we were cut short and hurried into the Bolivian immigration office, to find about 3 immigration officers dressed up in their soccer gear, stamping passports like crazy so that they could get back to their outdoor game that they were called away from. Quite hilarious I think, they cared more about their football game than who was entering their country.

So the last couple days here in Lake Titicaca have been great. Cold nights, sunny days. I'm back on the backpacker trail and on full tourist mode. Yesterday we climbed these cool rocks, or the 'horcas del incas' to get a great view of the lakeside town we're staying in. Today we took an incredibly slow boat ride to the 'isla del sol' and did a 3.5 hour hike through the island filled with sheep, donkeys, and spectacular lake views.  Tomorrow we're off to La Paz, the capital city. My time in Bolivia will be short, I've got an apartment rented for the month of June in Buenos Aries, Argentina so I've gotta get my ass down there. I'll probably have to take a two day bus at one point...