Early start to go back to the border to enter Bolivia again, to go to COPACABANA! - the original! a lively lakeside town, who gave its name to the famous Copacabana in Rio! After a walk around the town, we settled on somewhere for lunch! - eating trucha criolla - (local speciality of salmon trout! caught fresh from the lake titicaca!) Very tasty! we soon headed down to the beach in hope of a boat ride over to the Isla del Sol (Which was believed to be the center of Inca creation!) It has been identified as the birthplace of several entities, including the sun. After a little haggling, and a long boat journey across the freezing waters of lake titicaca, we disembarked the boat at the foot of an inca stairway with a redezvous further down the island in 60 minutes with our captain, for our ride back to the main land!
Getting a stride on, we headed towards our destination up some steep steps and across some hilly terrain! All coping magnificently with the altitude! (bless! Womble is tucked up in the van not feeling so good! 
) The view was outstanding, with the Isla de la Luna infront, and again, the now familiar backdrop of beautiful snow capped mountains! (the Cordillera Real mountain range!) The walk was challenging and rewarding! we finished at the Pilko Kaina ruins - an old inca church complete with cocal leaves cigarettes and sweets as offerings to the Gods.
Soon after arriving back at the new camp (copacabana beach!) We were treated to the most beautiful sunset! With such an array of colours, going through the spectrum from blue to yellow via everything in the middle! Beautiful!
DAY 6 - England 1 - Equador 0 !!
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Early start to get through the border, and on to Puno! Mum is poorly! 
I did the paperwork at the borders, to give her a little rest! everytime she is able to leave the wheel, she jumps straight into bed! (or onto the toilet!) I got shouted at by a Peruvian officer! oops! I don't blame him though! and i was very embarassed after! I should have known better! i felt very ashamed when i realised that i was stood in the middle of their colour parade! without saluting their flag! - the man was shouting at me telling me to salute! which obviously i did, as soon as i realised my huge mistake! - how disrespectful! i was too busy trying to work out the immigration routine to realise!
Driving through the beautiful scenery with farmland as far as the eye could see! we were bird watching, and pot hole spotting! We tried to pick up the pace to get to Puno for the match! However, believing the game started at 3pm, we called in at Chucuito to have a nosy at the temple de la Fertilidad! As soon as we jumped out of our vans! - (Minus mum, who spotted the chance to jump back into bed to try and recover! she is now really bad! showing no signs of improvement, becoming dehydrated, and everyone was very concerned!) we were met by 3 cute little children, offering to be our guides! We agreed, and they took us into the small temple filled with stone phalluses! (stone willies to the lay person!) Story has it that the ladies of the village used to sit on them to increase their fertility! hasten to add - I stayed well clear! i didnt even touch them! Scared that the legend may have some truth in it! The kids walked us round, showing us the remarkable markings on the stones representing various sacred animals!
Moving on, we headed towards puno to stumble across a jobs worth copper, who wasn't happy with our insurance documents, and wanted to fine us! thankfully, he changed his mind and we were able to move on! Parking up near the cathedral, which was much less OTT than the one at La Paz! we headed out for lunch and football! again, unfortunately leaving mum in the van poorly! Sadly, our boys were not in sight! they had played 2 hours or so earleir!
Had a lovely lunch! Alpacha steak, and 4 other courses for £3! (can't be robbed!)
Parked up near Sillustani ready for tomorrow! such a clear night! so many millions of stars! beautiful!!
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