Arriving in Copacabana after Peru had a strange taste of newfound freedom. The festival of the Candelaria, normally much bigger in Puno, is also celebrated in Copacabana and in all the region, and this year it was much more joyous and colourful on this side of the lake. People were dancing and drinking in the streets throughout the day.

Copacabana is most famous as the gateway to Isla del Sol, the biggest island on lake Titicaca, with ruins of pre-inca temples and unexpected white sand beaches on the lake.

On the way back to Copacabana, we stopped at a (cheesy) floating village where Mary had a delicious trout freshly pulled out of the lake. After that, the wind started to blow so hard that the boat could not continue. We had to offboard and wait for a shuttle to take us back to town. We rushed and just made it to catch our bus to La Paz.