The following morning we bade goodbye to Isla del Sol and reboarded the boat back to the mainland. We had one and a half hours in Copacabana before a bus would take us to the border & our fate would be revealed. Was it to be incarceration, 1 year for each day overstayed in Bolivia, was it to be a a hefty fine, or would $50 dollars slipped to the border officer see us clean into Peru?! We decided to get the bus to Puno (Peru), which was only a 3 hour journey. In this way if we were retained at the border we would not have wasted too much on transport. To cut a long story short the Bolivian border officials were uncharacteristically efficient. Sure we were brought into a back room but after counting up the total number of days we had overstayed (5) we were fined 100 Bolivianos in total (10 euro). We were glad and relieved to get back on the bus to Puno.
In Puno we found some nice accommodation (Hostel Europa) & decided we would get the train (yeah, our first train!) to Cusco the following morning. Not too much also to say about Puno really other than the fact that more of the locals spoke English and the prices reflected the fact that we had now officially passed out of South America´s poorest, & consequently cheapest, country.
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