Tuesday, June 15: Organise-a-thon

It’s our last full day to sightsee in La Paz, but we must also organise the rest of our stay in Bolivia. We check around town for prices on excursions: Lake Titicaca with Isla Del Sol included, the Aymara winter solstice festival, the downhill on the world’s most dangerous road. All are pricey, so we decide to organise a maximum on our own, with public transport. The puzzling together of our itinerary takes up so much time (3 weeks in Bolivia is hardly enough for what we want to do that we miss our planned visit to the Coca Museum.  We’ll have to slot it in right when we come back from Isla Del Sol, otherwise this visit just may go up in smoke.
In the evening we meet up with Sam, who organises the Pacha trek in the Apolobamba region and we click so much that we decide to have dinner together. Sam’s from North London, St. Alban to be more precise, and has exchanged the stressful life of the city for the life with Andean tribes in the Bolivian highlands. A life that won’t make her rich, but has provided her way more satisfaction from than she’s ever had. Between the 3 chatterboxes that we are time flies by so fast that it’s 11PM before we know it, and we must say our goodbyes. We still have to pack our daypacks with all the essentials for a 2-day trip to Isla Del Sol. The rest goes into our backpacks, which we will leave with the hotel for a couple of days. If we want to make the last ferry from Copacabana to Isla Del Sol tomorrow, then we’ll have to be on our way by 8AM. The phone charger of our mobile doesn’t work and it’s dead, so we can’t use it to wake us up. Can we avoid another mad morning rush? We ask a wake-up call for 6:30 AM.