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Ancient ruins, Historic site
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Lago Titicaca:Island Hopping @ Copacabana and Puno
... in Bolivia. The border crossing was stress-free and our driver even found us a cheap and nice hotel here in Puno, Peru. Puno is much bigger than Copa but also really nice and right on the shore of the Lake. We decided to take ...
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Going native........after a fashion!
... of days acclimatising...we visited Sillustani the site of huge burial towers of a aymara speaking tribe and Chucuito a pretty little village with a huge church and the templo de la fertilidad which contains large stone phalluses which women ...
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La lluvia
... pasa es que en Puno siempre llueve. I've been to Puno twice, and twice it rained at night. I spend a day in Chucuito, which is a temple of fertility. Apparently the culture who built the temple was quite open about their sexuality, the justification ...
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a temple full of phallus
After I felt a bit better I decide to do the small excursion to Chucuito, that's not far away from Puno. As They exist only privat tours to get there, I decide to go by public transport. I thought it would take really long until the bus would ...
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Incas, Pre-incas and a load of willies.
... with a few stone details including some carved heads on features such as gates. On our final full day in Puno we decided to visit the nearby town of Chucuito which has a couple of notable features. To get there we were going to take a collectivo ...
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Puno
After a good night we continued on with a stop at the small village of Chucuito. It is a pretty little village with only a couple of things to see according to the guide book. First is the Church of Santo Domingo which was built in 1539; it is ...
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Closing the loop - back to Titicaca and Puno
... time and decided to push onwards to Puno halfway up the western bank of Lake Titicaca. Shortly before Puno we stopped off at the small town of Chucuito, whose claim to fame was an Incan fertility temple. We found it just at sundown and had a quick ...
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Is that a banana?
... We were however persuaded by a local that we’d more than likely be mugged there so we should try another town instead, Chucuito. With self preservation in mind we took his advice and attempted to jump on a collectivo that would take us there. Puno ...
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The Lake with the Funny Name
... hope you will enjoy them as much as we did. (Minus the prayers for fertility any time in the near future…) After Chucuito we drove on to the town of Juli which is known as Peru’s “Little Rome”. Well I don’t ...
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Step by step, slow but sure
... Hotel Italia and taking just a small daypack for our overnight homestay with a family in the tiny hamlet of Luquina Chico in the Chucuito region on the edge of Lake Titicaca. Outside the hotel a fleet of tuktuks, the pedal variety not engines, was ready ...
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