Copacabana to La Paz
Leaving Copacabana over the 4300m pass that seemed to go on forever.It took us most of the morning to climb out of Copacabana and get to the ferry crossing from the pennisular to mainland Bolivia.
The crossing looks idylic but the water was choppy, the barge had seen better days, the wind was gusting, the donkey was going mad and kept getting wedged between the missing planks, the bus behind us looked like it was going to topple overboard when the next wave hit and the captian wanted a fight!It wasn´t our fault we bought a bus ticket by mistake and refused to pay a boliviano more.
Our new friend and a missionary from Slovakia took us in on a stormy night. He kindly offered us a room, fed us, but thought we were a little strange when we insisted on sleeping in our tent in his garage.Mucho Gracias.
The previous nights storm had left fresh snows on the surrounding mountains. Illampu, Huana Potosi are both in the cordillera on our left. However the triple peaks of Illimani (6402m) dominated our approach to La Paz.
