Lake Titicaca

Pros: Inexpensive, lively, mix of indigeneous cultures
Cons: cold, high elevation

Puno : How to get there

Puno is on the largest city on the Western side of Lake Titicaca with about 100,000 inhabitants. In order to reach Puno from Lima you have three options. The first is to take a bus for 42 hours. the road to...

Pros: Beautiful, peaceful
Cons: out of the way

This is not Barry Manilow's more famous Copacabana (though much to my husband's annoyance and my embarrassment I could not stop humming the song). This Copacabana is an attractive little village on the shores of Lake Titicaca. After a crazy day in Puno...

Pros: hot water 24hrs
Cons: hotels

EXCHANGE:
1$US = 5.79Bs

WEATHER:
Hot in the Amazon getting colder with altitude. Bloody cold in La Paz and Lake Titicaca at night.

TERRAIN:
Hot sticky jungles, very flat to very high mountains. In fact just about...

Pros: Unique, Authentic, very relaxing
Cons: very cold at night, primitive, rough transportation

Isla Suasi is a small island on the less-visited northern shore of Peruvian Lake Titicaca. It is a great resting place for those doing adventure travel south from rest of Peru, or north from Bolivia.

To get there, one can either drive in...

Pros: Cheap and pleasant
Cons: Hard trip from La Paz

When I travelled to Peru and Bolivia, I went to a very interesting place: The city of Copacabana, at the margin of Lake Titicaca. Itīs a very small city, but a very beautiful sightseeing, and incredible places to go.

*La Isla del Sol* (means,...