The rout leaving Puno that morning took us around lake Titicaca, which is one of the highest lakes in the world and the largest in South America. Within a hour we reached the border crossing into Bolivia. After multiple pay offs to get out of Peru, I then spent the next couple hours in a small room with a immigration official and a police officer trying to get our visas into Bolivia. At 135.00 US per person, we had to give part US and part Bolivianos. The problem is that they want to give you really bad exchange rate for using there own money. It took some negotiating to make sure we weren't getting completely taken, but we had come to far not to enter Bolivia over the usual shady border crossing practices.
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