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Bolivia: Copacabana, La Paz, Salar de Uyuni

With a short stop in in Puno, Peru a 12 hour nightbus took us to Copacabana, Bolivia situated next to the beautiful lake Titicaca. When I was a kid and heard the name Titicaca for the first time, I thought it's a made up place (the same I thought about Bora Bora and Abu Dhabi). Actually lake Titicaca is the highest lake in the world standing 3800 m above sea level and the largest in South-America. Its catchment area is 58 000 km2, surface area 8732 km2 and maximum depth 281 m. Copacabana is a lovely small town with many seafood restaurants mainly serving trout as the lake kindly offers plenty of trout.  It's a lovely 20 minute hike up Cerro Colvario mountain to appreciate the view over the city and the lake. We did it at sunset but apparently the sun didn't set this night, the sky stayed grey. On the next evening from the bus window we got the sunset we should have seen. There are at least 42 islands in the lake. We took a ferry to the Isla d...