Mike is in awe over the Tiwanaku ruins. It is pretty amazing. They have all these buildings that are half excavated and no one is working on them because the archaeologists were asked to leave by the mayor due to reasons that I believe involve money. Mike found a copper piece just laying out on the ground and there are parts of clay pots all over. The culture was fascinating. They had become pretty advanced prior to their disappearance. Their carvings are symmetrical and they even did brain surgery. It is unknown what happened to them, but the thought is that the weather changed so much that they migrated to other areas and they are now discovering cultures that started up around the time the Tiwanaku disappeared.
After the adventure through Tiwanaku we had a lovely lunch on a hillside – brown bag, brought by our tour guide and then took the long drive out to Copacabana. It was pretty and we kept driving past parades since it is the Sunday after God finished making the earth so he is sleeping so you can party.
In Copacabana, we checked into a beautiful hotel – Hotel Cupula and then took a hike up a large hill/small mountain which is quite a feet at this elevation (about 4200 meters). At the top we were rewarded by a beautiful view of Lake Titicaca and we ran into two nurses who had previously been working in Tucson, the man at UMC and the woman at TMC in the PICU, which is funny because she left in August and my first month in the PICU was September, if my schedule had been different we would have known each other from before.
After a hike down the backside of the hill we walked along the shore and then up the main street for a delicious dinner of trout and then to bed.
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