Current location:	Copacabana, Bolivia
Current mood:	cheerful
Current music:	The live saxophone group we watched next door

¡Bolivia!

Currently paying 7.5 bolivianas a night at a fairly decent hostel (24 hour hot showers!). The stinge in me got their price down from 10, still working vaguely in Peruvian soles. Perhaps twenty minutes later we converted it back into pounds and broke into fits of laughter- that´s about 40/50p. Bolivia is CHEAP! and this is the touristy section too.
Finally caved in and bought an alpaca jumper- i´d been resisting on principle in Peru because they´re a good ten pounds, ridiculous! Managed to get one here for the princely sum of the equivalent of three pounds. Nice!
Though I can certainly feel "Gap year tragedy" setting in- a slow but certain conversion into a hippy that seems pretty damn inevitable to all us gap year lot. Grr. <sup>(ie, longer hair, trousers repaired with safety pins, peruvian "chompas" and the ever wonderful peruvian hat).

It´s a worrying sign.</sup>

Anyways, we´re (there´s a good group of us at the moment, staying together until La Paz, the capital of Bolivia, in a couple of days) off to the famous Island of the Sun on Lake Titicaca tomorrow- it´s rumoured to be stupendous.