After spending a night on an island in Lake Titicaca, I continued my journey from Puno, a lakeside town on the Peru side, onwards to La Paz, Bolivia. Along the way I stopped at Copacabana, just over the border. Pictured is the Basilica of Our Lady of Copacabana where you can find the Sanctuary of the Black Virgin, a wood carving of Mary by Francisco Tito Yupanqui in 1592. The hill nearby is called Calvary (Calvario) which features stations of the Seven Sorrows of Mary and a great view of the lake. But the one thing I remember most about my short bus layover in Copacabana is not being able to get that damn Barry Manilow song out of my head. (Don’t click the link. Seriously. I warned you.) This was shot on a Pentax K1000 (film!).
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I did not click on the link, and I still have that damn song in my head. This reminds me of when I was in the Bavarian Alps checking out the Castle Neuchwanstein. I could not get the song “Sound of Music.” I kept singing it to the annoyance of my travel companions.
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Fortunately I have skipped seeing The Sound of Music altogether. I will be immune there! Muaha ha ha ha!
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