Lake Titicaca

Many Americans, mostly children, find the name of the lake to be humorous

I watched the movie version of Chariots Of The Gods when I was a kid and still remembered the Lake Titicaca sequence ("how could the ancient Maya know that Lake Titicaca was in the shape of a puma attacking a rabbit - they must have had SPACESHIPS!")

Didn't give a shit about the double entendre name. Still don't now.

how about lake poopo?

lol titty caca

hey yeah!

i give a shit about anything with a funny name like lake titicaca.

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then a couple of years later you're introduced to Titian, LOL

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Lake Titicaca's alright, but it's no Bangkok!
*tom then cymbal*

Best name for a lake, EVER.

It is the best place ever! I once took a boat to an island in the middle of it and stayed with a family there for a couple of days. The island was a mountain top coming out of the lake (said to be one of the deepest in the world - they've never found the bottom, supposedly). Shepherd men would walk along the path herding sheep while knitting and walking at the same time. I had the most delicious quinoa dish there. We played soccer with the kids there.

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how old are you again?

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Wateva otm

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I have been there! The Isla de la Sol is stunning. I stayed in Copacabana, on the shores of the lake, and saw lots of this sort of thing:

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People bring their cars and trucks there to be blessed, so they decorate them, get really drunk, smash wine/beer/chicha bottles on them, and have priests say blessings on the vehicles. It's very weird. Apparently it's mostly done by people who are going to drive up and down the "road of death" into the Yungas from the Altiplano.

also, we rode there on a bus from La Paz, and at one point you have to cross a river. There's no bridge b/c Bololvia, so you (and the bus) have to ride a ferry. It's not a big river, but there you go. The great part is that the Bolivian navy monitors the river crossing. It's great b/c Bolivia is landlocked. I guess they patrol the lake too, which at least has an international border.

Lake Titicaca absolute classic lake, because it proves the ignorance of minor 80s indie people Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, who sang "You can't get a boat to Bolivia." Oh yes you can.

also I am an idiot; it's Isla del Sol, not Isla de la Sol.

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poopy g.?

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the holy trinity

needs some timmy tannin

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rip:(

i am glad you are back, was worried!

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also i hope you are doing okay, i have been thinking about you.

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