#207 Smartphone Photography - Copacabana 🇧🇴 | 依山傍湖的科城

Hey, here are the photos I took with my phone in Copacabana, a Bolivian town close to the border with Peru. That late afternoon, I was wandering around in town by Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable body of water.

Suddenly I discovered a narrow trail leading uphill, so I decided to explore where it would lead to. For some parts I had to use my hands to climb up the steep cliffs, and it's not that easy to ascend in the very thin air.

It turned out to be totally worthy - when I reached the hill top at sunset, the view was just breathtaking (quite literally too as I almost lost my breath ;p). The city's colorful houses spreaded along the green hills, and the vast Lake Titicaca looked like an endless stretch of the deep blue sea.

You might have heard of the world-renowned Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro? In fact, that more famous cousin takes its name from this town. :) In the local language Aymara, Copacabana means “view of the lake”, deriving from “kota kawana”. Later in Rio, people found the shape of their beach resembled the crescent one here in Bolivia (as you can see in my photos), so they called it the same name.

The first photo is my entry to Qurator's Photo Friday competition, and below is the location - you can get an idea of Lake Titicaca's size:

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我从秘鲁陆路过境后，来到玻利维亚的边境小城科帕卡巴纳(Copacabana)。那天下午，独自在城内的的的喀喀湖边瞎逛，突然看到条上山的小路，决定探索一下。有些地方很陡，需要手脚并用地翻过山石，而且高原地带空气稀薄，等我好不容易爬到山顶，气都快没了。但看到的这番美景真是无法用语言形容，所以我就发了两张手机拍的照片^^。

在巴西时，去过里约热内卢那个世界闻名的海滩，也叫Copacabana，据说就是因为发现那里的海湾类似这儿的新月状，不知道这能不能叫墙里开花墙外香？结果里约的那片性感沙滩比这个高原山城的一弯新月要出名得多~。根据玻利维亚这里当地的语言，这个小城被叫做“湖景”(kota kawana)，看来我无意中发现的观景点竟然完全get到了此城的精华~ 真是太幸运了! :)

Posted using Partiko iOS

^{All content by @itchyfeetdonica
图文 by Donica多
Photos shot with iPhone 7}

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