At the Copa Copacabana

Was an early start to get to the airport to get our flight to Julica.

Crazy cab ride again but we made it with a little time to spare. Got slugged with excess baggage but fortunately Magnus paid for us.

Had a great flight across Buzz was thinking all his Christmases had come had come at once when he got a little Santa pack. He was so excited. Cute little fella he is.

 

I was seated next to a lovely old Peruvian couple who had never flown before and didn't have a clue what to do including doing up their seat belts or lowering their tray table, so I played air steward and helped them along and ended up having the best time with them although we didn't speak a word. I think they loved it as well. The look on her face when I showed them the photo on took on my phone was priceless.

Took about an hour or so before we landed at Julica airport.

No QANTAS club and Luxurious it isn't but we grabbed a coffee while we waited for Corey to pick us up and take us to copacabana where we were still are not 100 percent sure the bikes had arived.

When Corey arrived we were relieved to hear that the bikes had indeed turned up. We had an hours drive to get to Copacabana via the border crossing. Amazing to see how people live in this part of the world.

Our driver Dani wasa great driver and she knew quite a bit about the place and gave us a running commentary which was pretty cool. Drive through a huge downpour complete with sleet and hail, which obstructed our veiw of Lake Titicaca. The worlds highest perched lake, but we got a good veiw a little later On.

The border crossing into Bolivia was prettystraght forward.

Eventually we made it to Copacabana. (Not the one in the song) and checked into our hotel. It's quite a nice hotel and we had a great meal. The veiw from our patio is very nice. Only downsideis  I have to share a double bed with Buzz, but hey it's not the first time.

Altitude here is 3800 metres, so it's a bit of an effort to carry backs and stuff around and very easy to run out of breath.

 

Oh and our bikes are defineatly here. Woohoo ! Tomorrow we get to finally go for a ride. How long for we don't know as we still don't if we can get them across the argentine border. But we will try.

 

Comments

[Rupert]

Poor Honda's....and Buzz wakes up in the morning, with sore bum...before you hop onto the bikes.