Hostelworld: A Look Into the World of Hostels

A well known and reputable website like Hostelworld can do a lot of good when it comes to planning your travels. With guest ratings and comments, lists of available facilities, prices, location and directions on how to arrive, Hotselworld really helps you choose the best hostel for you. I’ve made good use of it for a while now. In Peak seasons it’s obviously a good idea to book when you find availability, but since my trip through Bolivia and Peru was during low season I used it as a way of sussing out potential hostels and then pitching up when I got into town and crossed my fingers that they could find one lowly bed for me. This approach worked 100% of the time (except over Christmas and New Year, don’t say I didn’t warn you). And a ‘don’t try this during peak season’ warning would also be useful. But since I’m not in advertising and Hotelworld is certainly not paying me to push their brand, I’d rather go into the ‘world of hostels’ than any deeper than I already have into ‘Hostelworld’.

Titicaca Express

‘Where do you want to go? Over there or over there?’ He asked us while trying not to fall over the side of the boat and most likely drown in Lake Titicaca. He happened to be pointing to two very non-descript places and left us with a rather difficult decision to make. Two and half hours after leaving Isla del Sol to head back to Copacabana on Bolivia’s mainland, we had long passed the estimated time of arrival and were still far from reaching our destination. Far from sober and far from understanding the hurry we were in, our captain repeatedly asked us where we’d prefer to ‘land’ since we no longer wanted to go the rest of the way with him and his equally liquored up co-pilot.