Another internet place, Copacabana

Internet in Bolivia has so far been horrible. There is no wireless, the internet cafes don't allow you to connect your own laptop to the network, or if they do then their network does not support DHCP, and manual configuration fails for some reason. Monitors are tiny and the only available browser is Internet Explorer which often informs you in Spanish that it's going to remember your GMail password now.

Spent today on Isla del Sol, hiking 13km from the North port to the South port along an old Inca trail. There were some Inca ruins but nothing special. The island itself has an interesting shape and is hilly with the highest point some 300m from the level of the lake (3812m). Otherwise the hike is boring: wild nature has been completely removed from the island: just terraced fields (potato, corn, beans), a few eucalyptus trees, donkeys, pigs and cows. The local people are money-hungry, every village has introduced a law that foreign tourists who walk through the village have to pay 5-10 boliviano (approx 1 USD). On our way we walked through 3 villages.

To get on the island one takes a boat which moves 9 km/h, i.e. even slower than an Amazonian river boat going upriver. It takes more than 2h to reach the island.

Tomorrow will take an early bus to La Paz.