Bolivian Border Blues

There have been many occasions I have lamented the colour of my passport - blue, for American - and on no occasion more so than the day spent leading up to and including crossing from Peru into Bolivia. Lets just run through the differences between my checklist and Andy´s checklist for getting into Bolivia:

Millay:

1. Get up early. Go to Bolivian embassy in Puno, Peru. Get told I need a form which he can´t possibly give me himself, but I have to find online. Get appropriate website addresses.

2. Find that none of the web addresses work. Of course.

3. Nevertheless, go ahead with collecting all the things I need for the crossing, including:

4. Passport

5. Photocopy of passport

6. Yellow fever vaccination card (Karaoke Eddie very kindly took us to a clean clinic in Cusco to get our shots, don´t worry mum!)

7. Photocopy of yellow fever vaccination card

8. Credit card

9. Photocopy of credit card

10. 4x passport photos

11. Letter proving hostel reservations in Bolivia...and last but most certainly not least,

12. $100 US dollars in cold hard ca$h. !!!!

Andy

1. Get the bus to the border.

2. Show passport. Get it stamped.

3. Walk onto Bolivian soil.

Where is fairness in that!!! *sigh*. At least all went well and I´m not in a Bolivian jail cell. We arrived at nightfall to the chilled little town of Copacabana (yes that´s right, the original) where we intend to plant ourselves, on the shores of Lake Titicaca, for a few nights before hitting the big smoke of La Paz.