Finding Eternal Youth on the Sun Island - Day 23

What a great nights sleep I had on the boat - it was really calm on the water until about 6.30am when the winds picked up and that was what woke me - my brain sending messages to my stomach of queasiness! so I got up and put my sick bands on just in case!

After breakfast the Catamaran headed off to another part of the island where we climbed up to see another pre inca ruin with a perfect view through one of the windows of the moon island...

We then climbed to the top of the hill which took us to 4030 metres about sea level - just incase you think thats amazing she climbed 4000 metres in a day - lake titicaca sits at 3800m!  Still a steep climb but worth it for the 360 degree views.

We started to climb down hill and visited an Inca museum that have been set up for the tourists and after that we had Coca tea and a snack at the tour companies cabana at the top of the hill with really beautiful views and the cabana is in the middle of a beautiful herb and flower garden, it was really pretty.

We then set off to have our Shaman ceremony where the Shaman prayed for our Long Life Good Health and Good Luck.  We put all the offerings into the bowl and the Shaman prayed over them then put them on the fire to burn them - the offerings were lots of sweets like in my other ceremony at Macchu Piccu.

Here is our Shaman doing his prayers with the Moon Island in the background - think I was supposed to be praying and not taking pictures but its  great picture isn't it?!

and here I am being blessed by the daisies that have been dipped in the sacred water.

It was a short ceremony but really beautiful and amazing to be part of.  The energy from the Island made it a very special thing.

So next we headed down hill to the fountain of the sacred water - the place where Eternal Youth can be found - oh boy did I suck up the water from that fountain!!!!

Here I am looking very excited to be getting rid of my laughter lines and grey hair!!

 and now sucking it all up, as much as I could get in my big mouth!!!

 This water comes from within the hills of the Sun Island and has always been treated as Sacred water but its really only in the last 100 years that the Eternal Youth tag was added but hey I am up for trying anything!

Our two days of touring the beautiful Island of the Sun was nearly over but we didn't realise that Guido our guide had one more fun surprise for me and my Korean friend - we were getting a trip on a reed boat round to the cove where we had started off on the morning.

Always willing to make a complete tit of myself here I am dressed as a Bolivian boat man - I reckon this is the Captains outfit....  although look at my body language - my feet say I am hating every minute of making a tit of myself!!!

and here I am as the Captain - hey boat geezer let go of the oar - don't you know I am in charge....

We then headed off back to the Catamaran for a huge lunch while the boat made its way to the port in Bolivia before taking us by bus to La Paz.

Got to my hotel in La Paz just after 8pm but there was a problem - no booking for me!!!  The travel agency had really done well not to have fucked to many things up up to this point but this was a major fuck up!  So I had 3 spanish speaking hotel check in staff all speaking loudly and fast in spanish and there was lots of pointing at me and then staring at the computer - the whole time I was trying to stay grounded and not get cross - which is hard to do when people are having conversations about you in another language and are pointing and staring at you like you have done something wrong - at one point one of the women pointed at me and accused me of not having paid the tour company which is why they hadn't made the booking - well my Mantra of "I am Grounded, I am Grounded, I am Grounded - fuck it these bitches are going to get it" kicked in so I started tossing paperwork and telephone numbers at them for the tour company and told them to phone the emergency number but they continued to discuss in spanish my predicament whilst continuing to point at me but they were getting louder now because I was interjecting with my own language - yup you can imagine!!!  So in the end because none of them were calling the tour company's emergency number I grabbed their phone from their desk and started dialling the number myself - that stopped the fuckers talking as they all looked at me opened mouthed.  Unfortunately no one answered the emergency number - what is the point of giving me an emergency number if no one answers - I left an irate message and then called back 5 more times to see if I could get a response - no chance!

Anyway I think my action of helping myself to their phone made them realise I wasn't going to suffer fools so one of the women finally called their boss and got authorisation to give me a room but I was told if the tour company didn't pay the bill they would charge my credit card.  Anyway room key given and porter on his way up with my bag I settled in to the hotel and the first thing I did when I got wifi was to send an angry email to the tour company telling them of their shambles.

By the time all this was sorted the hotel restaurant was closed so no alcohol for me tonight!  just a luke warm ginger tea!

At least I had a room and I got a call this morning to say everything had been paid and sorted with a huge apology from the tour company who added an excursion to the music museum to make up for my trouble.

I loved my two  days at the Sun Island - a very very special place that everyone should go and feel the energy of this little island it is really beautiful and amazing.

suzxxx