We were happy to not have to set the alarm clock so woke up quite a bit later than planned at 11am. Guess we will be staying a second night at this hostel!
Had a walk around town and got some breakfast and a Coffee at Copacabana Coffee House. Great Coffee but lousy service. We asked what time they opened (7am) so we could come back early the next morning.
There is a prominent hill on the north side of town which has a great view from the top so we went for a climb. The hill is only 166 metres high but when the town is at 3800m it still takes a while to slowly gasp your way to the top!
The views were fantastic. We were overlooking the whole town and across Titicaca lake and had a good view of Isla Del Sol where we are planning to go tomorrow.
Going up the hill we passed lots of large crosses and the top of the hill is covered in little shrines where people can make offerings and further along the hill is a large number of stalls selling minature vehicles, cars, houses and money which you can purchase to take a little way down the hill with the beer, flower petals, confetti etc you purchased from the other stalls to pray that these items will come to you in the following year. We bought 1 Million Dollars! In a little case for Sarah’s brother Beau who collects notes from around the world. I wanted to go and bless it with the beer spraying pilgrims but Sarah wouldn’t let me. Sorry Beau.


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