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Puno Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Puno, Peru
I´ve never seen a more beautiful blue
This is a top pick! ... . She has two children, Jose and something that sounds vaguely like William. Her husband, Bautista, is working in Puno. He won´t return for three months. They speak Quechua but learn Spanish in school. She is 33 years ...
A Plan at last - well maybe!
This is a top pick! Blurb & Video to follow, when we return to Blighty and proper ...
A Tale of Two Cities
This is a top pick! ... lodge an advance request for the water heater to be turned on.) The culinary scene was also equally differentiated. The Puno restaurants served a variety of interesting dishes, while each Bolivian eatery provided a similar slate of fairly bland food. ...
Puno
This is a top pick! ... ) and take it fairly slow for the first few days. Fortunately, we have no issues and were back to normal within days. While in Puno we explored the city by foot and mototaxi, we indulged in Guinea Pig, Alpaca and plenty of local beer. We also managed to ...
Arequipa - Cotahuasi - Puno
This is a top pick! ... ). All in all, people here are very open, friendly and hospitable (yes, i would like to spend more time in Peru). After Cota, I headed to Puno. The city of Puno is located in the south east corner of Peru, on the shores of the magnificent Lake ...
Gateway to the Islands of Titicaca
This is a top pick! We arrived by bus into Puno on Sunday evening and settled into our Hotel, Plaza Major. It is a soulless place and seen better days but the room was a good size with a very large bed and plenty of hot water. Puno itself is not a place to take to your ...
Where´d the air go?
This is a top pick! ... effort to get the air in and out of the lungs and any sort of exertion had us panting for more. Not surprising, considering Puno sits at the formidable altitude of 4100m! Remember how chuffed I was in getting to 4250m on Mt Blanc du tacal in France (and ...
Titi, Taquile and Uros
This is a top pick! ... know Puno We got to Puno and booked our tickets to visit the lake and islands the following day. We bargained excellently in Puno, getting s/5 each off our accomodation and then also getting a combined ticket for our day trip and then a bus to Copacabana ...
Passing Through
This is a top pick! Not much to write home about. The hotel was lovely, the cafe we had dinner was a great change from the food in Bolivia and the town was... well just a town. Expectin big things as we head north towards our dream of Machu Picchu. - JJ ...
Back to Puno!!
This is a top pick! ... Lonely Planet let us down! Booooo! There were only departures first thing in the morning so we had a nice chilled out afternoon in Puno...stayed in a different hostel as we were missing Dave too much to stay in the same place...or it might just have been ...
Buse Del Noche (The Night Bus)
This is a top pick! ... big. I was contemplating this seemingly obvious statement at three in the morning last night, as the night bus from Cusco to Puno rolled through another brightly lit toll station and back onto the same dodgy windy road that had preceded it; and wondering ...
Lake Titicaca
This is a top pick! ... guy sitting next to Dave on the bus...smelly, dirty and coughing like a trooper! Dave's very own rumplestiltskin! We arrived in Puno late afternoon and checked into a gem of a hostal with a very friendly lady who arranged everything for our final tour to ...
Lake TIticaca
This is a top pick! ... boats on it, but that just doesn´t sound as good. I arrived at Lake Titicaca with Darren on the night bus from Cusco to Puno. We were both dog tired but somehow had a lucky travel moment, picking up an incredibly cheap deal on a hotel room, including ...
Lake Titicaca
This is a top pick! ... place little value on punctuality, people sure do get upset over delays. As the bus descended down towards Puno I got to thinking that this part of dusty Peru feels a continent and culture apart from where I entered the country in tropical Santa Rosa just ...
Screwy Peru
This is a top pick! ... -than-blue-jim-mcblue waters of Lake Titicaca... Lest you think we were Titicaca-d out, we then crossed the border into Peru to the town of Puno. It also sits right on the Lake, but because its on the Peruvian side, you can access a few different ...
Floating Islands
I stayed the night in Copacobana and took a bus to Puno the next morning. Puno is known for its Isla de flotares which are man made floating islands on which people live. I arrived there around midday and the boat to the islands left at 4pm so I had some ...
Puno stopover, by eve
hello there everyone!!! just addinga quicknotefrom Puno on the shores of lake titticaca (the peru side)... have left adam in the hostel cos his knee was gioving him trouble,and gone exploring (had to promisewould not get kidnapped... hostel owner assured ...
Dia de princesa........ FIONA!!!
... é a maior fonte de renda, então é como se eles vivessem pra fazer um show pros turistas, e como em qualquer lugar do Peru, pra vender suas artesanias..... Depois das ilhas de Uros, fomos em direção a ilha Amantaní, que é onde íamos passar a ...
Titika-ka-ka!
We had heard that Puno, on the Peruvian shore of Lake Titikaka, wasn´t much to look forward to, but is the first stop on the Peruvian gringo trail because of the famous floating reed islands. We arrived late afternoon after a short 3 hour hop ...
Lac Titicaca cote peruvien!
... qui est un peu plus petite mais qui ne manque pas de charme non plus. Nous avons failli rater notre bateau pour retourner a Puno car nous sommes arrives au mauvais port, nous avons donc traverse l ile a toute vitesse pour attraper le bateau qi nous a ...
Adios Cusco, Hola Puno
After a days rest to recover from our Inca Trail trek in Cusco, we took a bus to Puno, our next destination in Peru. The bus ride was 7 hours and I guess the seats were comfortable enough. The toilet remains an issue with us girls expecially for Mel & I ...
The road to Bolivia....
... 2, again all in Spanish with no subtitles (you only get that on the really posh buses which i can't afford anymore!). I arrived in Puno pretty tired to be told that the Bolivians are striking at the border and I'm stuck here till tomorrow. I would ...
Lake Titicaca - A very different kind of life
Day 1 We arrived in Puno at 11am, the bus journey was really comfortable and had great scenery along the way. Puno is definitely not the prettiest city I have seen, however its another slice of what life is like in Peru. The town is bigger than I thought, ...
High Lake and Old Boat
... night in Puno three of us stayed on the Yavari - this is a victorian gunboat which was ordered by the President of Peru in 1862 - it took 6 years to transport it from the Peruvian coast to the lake. The ship was built in Britian and then flat ...
On the way to Lake Titicaca
... ; Eoin was really struggling – the guy barely managed to make the journey to Puno. So we stayed the night, slept off the hangovers and left early the morning - there wasn't much else to do in Puno anyway! [Ciaran] Truck stop, nothing ...
Up the mountains and across Lake Titikaka
Crossed the boarder from Bolivia to Peru with ease compared to Cambodia although the driving is as scarry and the roads worse. They use a line of bolders to mark out where the middle is, handy as the locals cant tell. Took a boat trip over to Taquile ...
Station 4: Der Titicacasee
Nach einer schoenen Fahrt in Puno angekommen. Schoenes kleines Staedtchen, direkt am Titicacasee - aber laut und stressig, wie wohl alle Staedte hier mit ueber 100.000 Einwohnern ;) Ich mags ja mittlerweile. Ausserdem scheint jede groessere Stadt in Peru ...
Schwimmendi Dörfer, viel Tourismus
... sehr traditionell vom Fischfang. D Chinder ruedered selber jede Tag zur "Schuelinsle" fuer id Primar. Fuer d Sek. muends bis id Stadt Puno ruedere, ca. 40Min. pro Waeg. De Tourismus haet (leider) faeng grosse iifluss da. Vieli laebed zumind. teilwiis vom ...
The road to Titicaca
... chased by a woman trying to sell us a jumper. We really didn´t want the jumper but overall it was a good day. The streets of Puno were fairly tight but we got away with only scraping a few buildings and lamp posts with the truck. The hotel in Puno was ...