Rurrenabaque to Copacabana

Another early start and another visit to the French bakery for croissants.I got to the Amazonas airline office for 720am and then took their shuttle bus to the airport. It’s only a 20 minute journey. Check in was an experience. The airport is so small so they literally take your luggage, weigh it and tag it and then dump it on a cart which drives 5 minutes down the runway and it’s loaded onto the plane. Once you’ve checked in and been allocated a seat you then pay your airport tax and sit and wait in the waiting room which is basically a small shack!Our flight was supposed to leave at 855am but due to fog in La Paz the flight hadn’t even taken off at 9am. At 10am we were told the plane was due to take off around 1015am so would arrive around 1055am.Luckily the information was correct and all passengers and luggage were on board the plane really quickly and we took off around 11:15am. I’m glad it wasn’t delayed any further as I had a bus to catch in La Paz at 130pm.At the airport I got chatting to a girl called Mary from Belgium and found out she was planning to get the same bus as me to Copacabana.Once we arrived in La Paz, Mary and I shared a taxi to the bus station. The drop in temperature and rise in altitude was really noticeable!We had a quick lunch at the bus station where we bumped into Adam and Louisa who were also getting the same bus to Copacabana. It’s a small world when you’re travelling.The bus from La Paz to Copacabana has to stop at San Pablo de Tiquina to cross the Titicaca straits. Passengers get across on one ferry and the bus is transported across on another kind of ferry.Once on the other side in San Pedro de Tiquina we all got back on the bus and drove the last 45mins to Copacabana. Some of the views from the bus were spectacular.On arrival in Copacabana we all went our separate ways to check into our various hostels, but agreed to meet up later for drinks at sunset. This is the view from my room in the hostel.Around 615pm I wandered down to the white anchor to meet Adam and Louisa. As I was taking some photos I met another girl, Barbara from Austria, who then joined us for drinks and dinner too.We went to a rooftop bar to watch the sunset whilst sipping on a caiprainha.One of the traditional local dishes is trout, so we had some stuffed trout for dinner at a lovely maritime restaurant called La Orilla. The food was delicious.

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