goodbye peru hello bolivia our columbia ecuador peru fourth
south american country we're so excited to enter today we're heading in at copacabana
on lake titicaca and we really haven't checked out lake titicaca yet because we heard that it's best
over in bolivia and we're excited to head in we are going to miss a couple of things about
peru we've really really loved the nature and the amazing ruins that they have here
specifically all of the hikes that we did in the sacred valley and also just amazing mountains in
peru that hopefully we get to experience again in bolivia but honestly it was pretty hard whenever
we went out to eat to find some veggie food for me to eat the waiters just kind of laughed at me
which was super annoying so hopefully they don't do that in bolivia in bolivia we're super excited
to see the hoodoos outside of la paz la paz in general and then also down to the salad the uni
as us citizens we only have one month in bolivia and the visa costs 160 dollars oh so
i guess we're pretty lucky because this is the first country that we've had to pay for a visa
like that so i really shouldn't complain too too much but we are pretty fortunate to have such
a strong passport with our route right now it is looking like we might be able to make it to chile
for around my birthday to go skiing which i'm super stoked for but yeah bolivia has
subsidized gas so the gas prices are super duper cheap and peruvian chilean and argentinians found
out about this and started heading into bolivia to buy gas which made the government kind of upset so
they put a tariff on the gas for tourist cars our gas is like four times as much as bolivians
pay for gas but it's still supposed to be cheaper than peruvian gas which is honestly very expensive
i think it's like five dollars a gallon right now we have heard you can haggle or bribe the
the gas station attendant to get a medium price between the bolivian and the foreigner price
the exchange rate for bolivia is 688 bolivianos to one us dollar well we've heard that this
should be the easiest border crossing yet here in copacabana from peru to bolivia so
wish us luck it all this border crossing only took rob 30 minutes we're really happy that
he's ahead of us so that he could give us all the insight to what the country has been like
he's already in the salon that you need which is a huge salt flat we're super excited to check out
we're already stamped out of peru it took so little time man that was only like a second
we just made us pull down our mask so now we're gonna head over to the other side of the street
and cancel out our tip which is the paperwork for the van hurry we only have an hour left
well we got our tip canceled out of peru and now we're heading to bolivia okay so we're heading to
the bolivian migration this might be a little difficult because of the visa payment so it
wasn't as easy as we thought it would be because we're from the u.s we walked up to the counter
and they told us we need all these papers and where's our declaration honestly i haven't even i
i don't think that this was on any website you have to like come to
the coffee place next door fill this out take a picture print that out put it on there
they have to print out a bank statement they have to see a yellow fever vaccine they have to have
copies of our passport and then again 180 dollars they also want to have a reservation
which is just so silly to us because we obviously live inside the van and other countries they just
accept that you have the temporary vehicle import permit and they will accept that as
your reservation and how long you're going to spend in the country as well but this country
they want a reservation for a hotel and then also how we're going to leave bolivia like a
flight back to the us and we're not going back to the us we're going to drive to chile so it's like
oh my god that was terrible okay well i finished paying for the visas and i guess
danny is done with the arwana are we done yeah we're good we're in olivia we're in bolivia
honestly with no help from anyone else that was ridiculous here we go driving in i can't believe
we got it done that was really intense honestly trying to get that all done in time this border
crossing was so absolutely ridiculous on the bolivia side one thing after another they told us
what we needed and when we gave it to them they we also needed other things that wasn't on the list
it was just not a very smooth border crossing the people weren't helpful until we told them you're
being very unhelpful even whenever i tried to pay for the visa they rejected a bunch of my bills
they said that there's stains on them and really they just looked like normal u.s bills
so luckily they did have a credit card machine i could use the tip was very simple getting
into bolivia danny got that done very quickly at this point at least we're here we started
at 5 30 peruvian time but we changed time zones whenever we crossed into bolivia so
we ended at 8 o'clock which is basically the time that they close luckily we got
through though and now we're able to explore another whole country for the next 30 days
last night we basically just found a spot to stay next to the water but it was super beautiful and
free which was really nice to save some money after spending a hundred and sixty dollars each
to get into this country today is a new day we have met some very friendly bolivians there was
a woman last night that tried to help us get our sim card chip but it turns out that all of the
smaller stores run out of the best one which is intel in bolivia it just has coverage all over
and as long as it's not collateral i'm okay with it we're going to the big intel store to get our
sim cards and we already got the prices it is seven to one for bolivianos to us dollars the
one that we're going to get is 13 gigabytes with 15 minutes of calling for 100 bolivianos which is
14. so it's about a dollar nine cents a gigabyte which is pretty great i mean it's not as good as
like some other places we've been compared to the us where it was almost three dollars a gigabyte
this is pretty good and after we get the chip we can buy some more gigs at any little bodega
little store on the corner they all recharge your intel so whenever we run out of 13 gigs 13 gigs
sounds like a lot but when you go home you don't really realize that you're on your wi-fi and maybe
13 gigabytes would last you a long time but since we're never on wi-fi we're constantly using google
maps and we have to upload videos on it it doesn't go as far for us so a dollar gig is pretty good
we've been checking out copacabana today and we think we've found a pretty good tour for tomorrow
over the isla del sol what we want to do is walk from one side of the island to the other
which doesn't seem to be too hard it's only about five miles no one visits this uh the
north part of the island too much so it'll be interesting for us to be able to make this
journey a couple years ago they actually closed off this walkway they couldn't agree
upon a tariff to walk across in the can within the community but now it seems to be okay and
they're letting tourists pass through which is really fun for us so we just wandered up this
beautiful little mountain here cerro calpario in copacabana and this is another touristy attraction
it got the perfect view of copacabana and the little marina that they have over here walking
up there are steps so it's not too hard but it does get a bit steep and we're going to take the
off-road way down which is a little bit more steep less marks unfortunately i think we lost
a little bit of our acclimatization we're pretty high up here at the highest largest
navigable lake navigable lake in the world but since we went to the amazon for a week
we're able to sleep okay but when we climbed this mountain it was a little difficult to breathe so
we have to work to get that climate station back we're not going down for a very long time
le pass is the next city that we're heading to and that's also very high so it should be
easy for us to get acclimated once again at these super high and east mountains so far in bolivia it
seems that people have been super nice to us if they don't have something and you ask them for
it people have gone out of their way to help us find where to get that thing emphasis we also
asked if somebody can come with us and she can so good news because she definitely could go on
a five mile hike especially after uh all those driving days and a border crossing it's gonna be
the perfect way for all of us to unwind after the sea of paperwork we just went through so to go to
isla del sol and back it should be 50 bolivianos which should be about 14 bucks so not too bad
coming up on this cool hotel that has every room is like a different shape and like one
of them is a shell one of them kind of looks like a spaceship it looks pretty
cool and very classy done and on google it says that it's 50 a night to stay there
where is the line between dreaming and feeling blue
it's four o'clock in the evening i haven't left my room but the truth is
if i'm honest i feel stuck here in the middle
am i one of those crazy people should i stay here or should i let go
thank you guys so much for heading into bolivia with us
we are so excited to check out this new country together
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