Bolivia
Although the distance between Puno and Copacabana is only 151 km, and the roads are in a good
situation, is 4 hours approximate journey where the most time is lost when reaching the border because
you have to spend immigration, almost at the gates of the city. Right there we must try to change the
Bolivian currency because to enter the city we have to pay one Bolivian; a pittance used to help build
better infrastructure, this payment can annoys many visitors who go on buses mostly foreigners. It is a
derisory amount that helps the population.
The city itself does not have much attraction for
foreign visitors than the approach to the sacred
islands. But it is, for Andean believers, the city
where you can find the Virgin of Copacabana,
PATRON OF BOLIVIA.
Two hills embrace Copacabana: Calvary hill and
Niño Calvario Hill (or Kesanani), it’s a tow n with
barely 3,000 inhabitants, their main source of
income is based on religious tourism, where
believers arrive from the rest of Bolivia as from
Peru and neighboring countries.
Foreign tourism aims to move to Isla del Sol & la
Luna, three hours by boat.
It is the most important Marian place of
pilgrimage in Bolivia for his veneration of the
Virgin of Copacabana, a fact that causes that
during the festivities on August 5 and February 2
is multitudinous domestic tourism.
Approaching the Virgin is constant throughout
the year, not in such quantity and dates of the
festival.