Chucuito 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

  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 ...

 Mercredi 19  decembre Arequipa ( 2335 m) est vraiment la plus belle ville depuis le debut de ce voyage: magnifiques maisons coloniales en pierre, une cathedrale gigantesque sur la Plaza de Armas, des eglises superbes, nous nous regalons a ...

... 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 ...

... nez v Cuscu, ze maji jine housky a ruzne dobroty. A taky ze Titicaca tu trosku smrdi a je pokryte zabincem. Chucuito je mala vesnice s docela peknym kostelem a krasnym vyhledem na Titi, nadherna modra plocha pod velmi silnym sluncem. Samozrejme jsme se ...

... 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 ...