Last week we took a gorgeous journey to the Isla del Sol in the middle of Lake Titicaca, where the Inca and Aymara people believe the sun god first emerged to bestow man, woman, the stars, and the sun and moon upon the earth. There is a boulder there shaped (though you have to look hard) like a puma's head. This is where the name Titicaca comes from. In Quechua titi = puma and in Aymara khar'ka = rock. Yay educational travelling!
Later on that night in the little lakeside town of Copacabana, we encountered a huge brss band playing loudly in the streets. After a gorgeous sunset over the lake we headed back to the squae where the band played on all night in preparation for Bolivian Carnival which is Feb 2. The most amazing thing was seeing all these little Bolivian women in their traditional skirts and bowler hats getting tipsy of liters of beer and dancing in the streets!
From there we took a bus across the straight of Tiquina where the bus is actually loaded on to a tiny decreped wooden "ferry" and sent across the chopy and rainy waters. That was pretty wild. We were also stopped by some very sketchy "police" on the highway who said they wee loking for drugs and then confiscated a carton of coke bottles some Bolivian women had been transporting. I have no clue what that was about, but I'm glad no money was involved.
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