Copacabana

(DAY269 : Puno - Copacabana : 90 miles)


Copacabana is a quick ride from Puno, but after a very late start and the time zone change, it was 7 pm by the time we got there. Incredibly, the little border was still open, but access to it was not quite so. We found ourselves in the middle of a festival, among people dancing in Inka costumes and their spectators. After several attempts to penetrate failed, we took turns to walk to the immigration office and process ourselves. When we could eventually get the bikes to the customs, I was in for another surprise: Turkey was not in Bolivia's system. But this is Bolivia and there's always a strange solution, so we got processed as Taiwanese with a little note saying "not really". By the time we parked into an almost free hospedaje, it was night.


An impassable border crossing.


Copacabana



Unfortunately, the vehicle blessing services which the place is famous for were not open the next day, so we had to leave unblessed.