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WARNING: avoid Copacabana at all costs during any public holiday, especially if you're dependent on hostels and can't go camping. All of La Paz flocks to the lake on (long) weekends especially around Christmas and NYE. There's about 50 "hostales" and they manage to get all of them full. Even fast food takes an hour during holidays.
From the occasionally extortionately priced town of Copacabana (which is actually the "original" Copacabana if you have a Trivia night) you have to get to the border town of Kasani 12 km south, which passes the Copacabana airport. You can hitch there or say fuck it and take the 3 Boliviano micro (which is 2 for locals/non gringos). The Migración office is on your right hand now and you have to have your passport and green paper (sucks if you lost it, I don't know the consequences of this but it probably involves a bribe) ready for the angry men. Should take one minute to check out of Bolivia if you manage to answer questions correctly and not piss off anyone in the process. Hurrah! Now you have to walk 300 meters past the church the Perú statue and you'll find the Peruvian office on your right hand too. Again, you'll have to fill in a form that you have to carry with you during your entire stay like upon entering Bolivia. These guys were friendly, which probably has something to do with the fact that they have a nicer building to perform their job in. The first town on the Peruvian side is named Yunguyo and you're about 2 km away from it. You can get a 2 Soles micro there or walk to the end of it to get to hitch to Puno, which is really easy though it's still 120 km away! As experienced by [[User:MOAH|MOAH]], hitchhiking in Perú is a fucking breeze compared to Bolivia.
=== To/From [[Chile]] ===
*Colchane - Pisica
From Iquique, in Chile, you have to reach Huara on the road 5 in the direction of Arica. In Huara, there's a paved road that goes directly in Bolivia in Oruro. The border is between Coclchane (Chile) and Pisica (Bolivia). To leave Chile or Bolivia you need the paper they gave you while entering the country. There are many trucks on this road that goes from the harbor in Iquique to Oruro in Bolivia.
When going from Chile to Bolivia the PDI and Policia boliviana are in the same house, rigth at the border between the city of Colchane and Pisica. Checking out and checking in are in the same room. You can change Euros, Dollars, Bolivianos or Pesos Chilenos and buy food. Be warned from the cold, if the days may be sunny and quite hot, the nights there (at 3700m) may be very cold.
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