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Puno Slideshow
Puno
Travel Blogs from Puno, Peru
A floating Disneyland
... ) with a couple of english/aussie guys from the bus. Next day we went to see the famous floating straw islands near Puno. They were slightly less authentic than we'd hoped! The locals who lived there were dressed in matching traditional dress and ...
Lake Titicaca and the home-stays
... ... From Cusco we made our way (via the longest of bus rides so far - nearly 11 hours - on our progressively failing bus) to Puno, the city on the edge of the lake. A greatful nights sleep in Puno saw us greet an early morning cycloride to the dock ...
Puno stop over
After a very friendly border crossing, we had 2 hours to kill in Puno before our night bus to Lima. Not much time for sightseeing, so we settled down with the best Lemonade either of us had ever ...
Cuy, Cakes and Inca Trail
... by a really enthusiastic group playing their pipes and dancing in the tiny confines of the restaurant. Our final trip from Puno was to the funerary towers of Sillustani, nestled in a peaceful location in the mountains. Pre-Inca civilisations ...
Puno- Lake Titikaka
... 'd just arrived that morning. So while everyone is getting tucked into a delicious lunch, we're sitting there looking mornfully towards Puno where our money awaited us hidden inside an ATM. It was even tougher because we hadn't had anything to eat since ...
Days 3-10, Highlights of Ica to Puno
... bitters. It tasted a bit like Tequila to me which I'm not a fan of so I didn't really like it. Sorry Peru! After being shown the production line we were treated to a wine tasting session. We sampled pisco and wines of various strengths as ...
Puno & the floating Islands
... it was only a three hour bus ride from Copacabana to Puno. About 20 minutes into the journey we were at the Bolivia/Peru border crossing. This experience was surprisingly easier than a Qantas domestic flight!! No bag check, no questions in Spanish and I'm ...
The simple life
In the western world, the need for more is always apparent. The more wealth someone has, the more things they need, the more they need life to be easy, convenient and simple. Well, simple can't be more simple than in developing communities. Take the ...
Island Hopping
... the world is? That´s right, we´re on Lake Titicaca on the Peru-Bolivia border some 12,000 feet up. We arrived in Puno, Peru Monday morning at 4:00 AM as a result of a very frustrating bus experience that saw us demoted to carriage class along with ...
To deepest darkest Peru
... to rest my body for an hour and a half but when we get to town I realise there is a bus out of Copacobana to Puno in Peru in only an hour. There is a large hill beside Copacobana that has the stations of the cross leading up it and supposedly great ...
Puno and Lake Titikaka
Well, our first destination was Puno on Lake Titikaka. It is at approxiately 4,000 meters and borders Peru and Bolivia. We took a bus to Lima, on which I threw up for half the time, then flew from Lima to Puno. Now, our little Texan is not accustomed ...
Puno
Stop over for the Bolivian border crossing, one of the battery terminals had managed to rattle itself loose as I was riding on the dodgy Peruvian roads, which caused alarm as the bike wouldn´t start but filled me with relief when I found out why, ...
Lake Titicaca: Isla Taquile & the Reed Islands
... the history and current life of the islands. Then we were treated to a delicious meal of fried trout and a trip around the island on a reed boat, before setting sail once again, this time for our return to Puno and our final meal together as a ...
Lake Titticaca- Day 2 Taquile island
... walked for a very long time around the island until we finally got to the town square. We had lunch at Taquile island and then walked down over 500 steps to get to the bottom of the hill to our boat. Back to Puno at night for more italian food... mmm mmmm ...
Floating Islands
So we arrived in Puno at 4am. we didn´t sleep much on the bus because condensation from the ceiling would drip on us as soon as we fell asleep. at the bus station we booked a 3 hour trip onto lake titicaca to visit the floating islands of the ...
The Bolivian Debacle
... is also the home to Bolivia's Navy. Surprisingly they do not in fact have any access to the sea thanks to wars with Chile, Peru and pretty much all of their neighbours, but apparently that still does not preclude them from having a navy! They have just ...
A floater on Lake Titicaca!
... does seem to be a multitude of dogs lining the roadside, claerly mad as they chased every vehicle that passed them. The city of Puno itself is a much more ragged affair than cusco but has its own charm all the same - lots of little fruit and bread ...
Colca Canyon and Puno
... if they don't contribute funds to there homeless cup. It was pretty funny!!! Later in the afternoon we jumped another domestic flight to Puno. It seems to be a tread that domestic flights are always about 2 hours late. In Puno the next day, we took a ...
Ecce Felus
... the ocean stretching out in front of you. Indeed, this was the first impression. Once past the slime of the port area near Puno, it becomes beautiful. Ice Cube, the popster from the sleepy California town of Compton, once sang that "Today was a good ...
Sep 11, 2010
Stuck in Puno
... enough yet). The strike entails road blocks on all major roads, including the one between where we are now and the Bolivian border. Unfortunately, Puno isn't a place with heaps to do or see. We are on our third night here now, and we've exhausted all ...
Puno et le petit caca!
... ) . Puis nous avons marche sur la jolie Ile de Taquile ou nous avons danser avec leurs habitants Quechua, maitres tisserands. JOUR 3: Trajet Puno-Cusco Levee a l;aube pour se rendre a Cusco en autobus, de LUXE cette fois!! hihi! (pour le meme prix!) ...
Cusco & Lake Titicaca
... there was didn't taste great. However, the Alpaca steaks were superb. We then headed on to Lake Titicaca on the border between Peru and Bolivia. It is the highest navigable lake in the world at 3812m (apparently navigable means a big ship can sail on ...
as ever an eventful couple of days left ...
... in varying states of health from smug fit as a fiddle types to puke riddled invalids snaked it's way through the streets of Puno. Our cyclist was particularly unlucky as in Clive & I he had the heaviest load and the poor chap looked almost as ...
On the move again!
... it will be pretty amazing to see how much ground I can actually cover in the next couple of months! By the way... I am in Puno, Peru right now. Another section of Lake Titicaca. This is just a stop over on my way north.. so I am only ...
Puno to Cuzco!
... to our guide as i was surprised that there was so many eucalyptus around. I wondered if they were also native to Peru also however he explained to me that they were imported during the 19th Century for the medicinal purposes, the wood as well as ...
Lake Titicaca - Part Two
We were told Puno was boring, but must have arrived here at just the right time as it was Puno Week, a celebration of the city´s birthday. Colourful street processions by children and young people from all of the region´s schools, concerts and a ...
After MP
... for the city of Puno. The main attraction for this place was the fact it sits on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Puno was pretty interesting because I chose to stay somewhere very cheap..like really cheap. I payed $3 for my accomidation the first night. ...
Arequipa, Peru to Copacabana, Bolivia
Today we arrived in the city of Puno which is situated on the border of Lake Titicaca. Puno does not have a lot to offer in the way of adventures but has provided us with a good location to jump over the boarder into Bolivia. We spent much of the ...
Puno and floating villages
Lake Titicaca was my last stop in Peru, going form Puno to visit the floating villages. The amazing lake straddles both Peru and Bolivia and is 230 km long! We visited villages an hour into the lake that are entirely made of reeds! Many ...