Visa extension, Bolivia, bribes, Copacabana

Spent 20 mins across the border into Bolivia for a quick extension of our Peruvian visas. Copacabana is a quaint little town nestled up against Lake Titicaca and funnily enough the pace there seems to slow almost to a welcome coma from bustling Puno.
Corruption is no secret in all walks throughout South American countries and of course Peru and Bolivia excel in what we have all ashamedly come to expect as travellers. Im not new to it here either but the sly way in which our Bolivian immigration attendant looked over his shoulder as we slipped him a few extra dollars as a "propina" (tip) to make sure we could get straight back over the border without staying the obligatory 24 hours, was comedic. And it was even more so as we proffered more cash when "making sure" our Peruvian gatekeeper stamped us with a 6 month visa (the same length we managed to get for free on the Chilean/Peruvian border). He slips it ever so deftly under his paperwork, making sure he isnt seen - by who? The one honest guy working the whole Peru/Bolivia border?