Lake Titicaca and Isla Del Sol

From La Paz, we spent 2 days exploring the nearby Lake Titicaca. This is the world’s largest high-altitude lake and sits at 3808m, measuring 457m deep in places! It forms part of the border between Bolivia and Peru. We spent a night on a beautiful island on the lake called Isla Del Sol – allegedly where the sun was born (and it’s still going strong!)

Going on the island is like stepping back in time. They still use donkeys to carry tanks of water up the steep slopes of the island. We came across a local wedding where the locals were out in someone’s front garden dancing away :) The island is not very big – there are no roads only walkways – but since we had no map, we managed to get lost looking for our hostel and ended up climbing one of the peaks on the island in the process. Thankfully we eventually found somewhere to stay. Because the island is quite a steep little mountain, there are some great views from the top and we were treated to a fantastic sunset that night. We somehow managed to get lost again the next day on our way back to the boat (we were looking for some ruins on the far side of the island but never found them). It really was a very beautiful island and we could have stayed there for a week but we were short on time.