Saturday, September 3, 2011

Copacabana, Lake Titicaca

Today I woke up early and we took a taxi to get on a  mini bus (its like a van, that holds like 12 people). We were crammed in the mini bus with 10 other people as we went up the mountains on some pretty sketchy roads going about 65 miles and hour. On top of that I was already sick and had a huge headache. It was terrible but the view was incredible. We got to a  small town and took a boat across a small section of Lake Titicaca and onto and island then another taxi for about an hour, stopping once and a while to take pictures. It reminded me of California, with golden rolling hills, the sky was bright blue with big puffy white clouds. One of the scariest things that happened tome was while we were in the third taxi going fast around a corner there were two stray dogs in the road and the driver beeped but one of the dogs didn't get out of the way and was hit by the car. The driver just kept driving and said it wasn't his fault.I think the dog might be okay though. But it was still really scary and sad. La Paz is the most amazing city I have ever been to.It is so beautiful and at night the sides of the valley are lit up by the houses and it looks like thousands of stars. One thing I like is all the people. Everywhere we go there are people. It is very different than Wisconsin that is for sure. I will post pictures tomorrow.

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