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Puno
Travel Blogs from Puno, Peru
Cusco to Puno and Lake Titicaca
... a daily occurrence. They do fish and hunt birds and supplement their diet with trading veges etc back at the port in Puno. Wayne and I felt a little uncomfortable with the touristy effect we had and tourism generally has had on theses people. We declined ...
Thousands of Steps
... highly enough. Four hours later, we got another bus to pick us up. Twelve hours to go 50 miles. Sweet. Kelly and I are in Puno now. Puno is the jumping off point for Lake Titicaca. We're going out on the lake for a few days in what should be a ...
Puno
Hello everyone, Our next stop has been Puno, where we went to visit some islands with penguins, seals, lots of birds and lots of bird poo. The weather was so Scottish, it was disgusting, please look at the photos to see what we had to wear to ...
Going native........after a fashion!
... hauled over the andes by donkeys, admired some ducks and shopped and subsequently dropped in some markets! We left Puno by train and wound our way through stunning scenery and dusty towns and villages. We were served delicious food ...
Islands part 1, part Peru :)
... the illusion that we do know, and we hope we do... Of course I do know where my next busticket is leading to, Puno! A small town near the border of Bolivia, and at Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake n the world.I found a cool CouchSurfhost, ...
Day 43 – Place of Rest
... were all packed, but our favourite restaurant (Hacienda Restaurant) found room for the two of us. Thankfully, they share owners with the pizzeria next door, so Marie got her Hawaiian pizza. Puno, a place to rest. Hope all is well! Love, Gary and ...
Breaking out of Bolvia
... -deserved pisco-sours. The next day we went in our separate directions, as backpackers do, and continued our journey from Puno to Cusco, Peru. Unfortunately there were still impassable roads ahead. What was should have been a 6 hour bus ride became ...
Een goede dokter gevonden
We zijn op de 17e aangekomen in Puno, Astrid is nog steeds niet lekker en we besluiten om op de 18e 's morgens een dokter op te zoeken. Die blijkt om de hoek van het hotel te zitten en heel goed engels te spreken. Toch wel handig! Astrid wordt uitgebreid ...
Puno - Floating Islands, Fights & Food Poisoning
... a certain movie. “Do you think Willy Wonka is still alive?” Definately had some awesome and horrible experiences from Puno and we are now nestled up in a hammock looking down on Cococabana and Lake Titicaca from our hostel in some searing ...
Sunrise on Lake Titicaca
... make money from us, with more shops of souvenirs and a restaurant. After giving us time to peruse the goods we were taken back to Puno. When we arrived in Puno we still had an hour or so spare, so we had fresh trout in one of the stalls by the ...
darkest peru
... needless to say i missed the bus. but did have an interesting taxi ride with a fellow that was smuggling rice, of all things, into peru and smelled suspiciously like old baked chicken. really, i can´t make this up. so needless to say, i missed the bus ...
Overnight stay at Lake Titicaca
... , where we started our two day trip to lake Titicaca (titi=grey, caca=puma). It was a fun ride that gave us a flavor of Puno which we hadn't seen so far. After about 3hrs (apparently there is some kind of rule that does not allow the boats to go beyond a ...
Island hopping on Lake Titicaca
... to go to Puno on the Peruvian as this is where you catch the boat for the various islands. We stayed in Puno for a night and woke up early the next day to catch the boat to the islands. The first islands were half an hour away, the ...
Practically Puno
This is a top pick! We got to Puno and rented a boat to take us on tour of this side of Lake Titicaca (about a two hour ride). The Belgium ladies, Mimi & Valerie were still with us, and so was Benni. Lake Titicaca was beautiful, the sun was shining, and the locals were ...
If I see another set of stone steps ...
... at 8am this morning (with no air conditioning and lots of cracked windows) and headed across a baking hot desert type highway for 6 hours to Puno, on the shores of lake titicaca. Tomorrow we head out to the lake to stay with a local family and do some ...
Titicacasee
Heute am fruehen Nachmittag sind wir nach einer 6-stuendigen Busfahrt durch eine beindruckende Landschaft in Puno angekommen, unserem Ausgangspunkt fuer die naechsten Tage. Der Titicacasee ist 3800 m hoch und damit der hoechste schiffbare See der Erde! Es ...
Back again
We have returned on bus the way we came, it´s much much cheeper and you get to see lots of the Lake. We book our onwards ticket to Cusco for tomorrow ALL in Spanish !!!!! which we are pleased about. We are trying to catch up with the ...
Lake Titicaca
... a couple of weeks before packing my bags again. From Lima it was another 19 hours on a bus to the southeast corner of Peru, where I managed to make it across the border in a shared taxi, despite falling prey to a mysterious illness, with headache, ...
Peru, Puno / Lake Titicaca
Sun 14.9.08: Peru, Puno PERSONAL: Apart from being the gateway to Lake Titicaca, there is very little of attractions in Puno (for me, the most memorable is finding the hidden gem of a cafe next to the Cathedral - they housed so many coffee ...
Yet another shithole!!!!!
This is a top pick! ... valley at approximately 3900 metres. The roads as normal were lined with dumped rubbish and it was a pretty dull day. Arriving into Puno about 3pm our worst fears were realised and as we were prewarned it was a complete shithole. Probably the worst one ...
Taquile, Puno and Sillustani
The next day we were on our way to Puno and Peru. It was a beautiful 4 hour bus journey passing along the lake shore and watching the Peruvians working hard in their colourful fields. Our arrival in Peru was made easy by our bus conductor who had a hotel ...
On the shores of Lake Titicaca
... and Rachel even got a go at paddling the boat! The baby condor was 16 months old and already huge. When we got back to Puno the streets were crowded as it was a National Day with parades and celebrations. The idea was for us to have a quick lunch ...
I would walk 500 miles...
... allés prendre dun douche et on a tous soupé ensemble... c;était sympa... c quand meme moche qu'on ne puisse plus se revoir... Enfin! Puno JE suis maintenant a Puno, a cote du lac titicaca. Il fait frette pis ya pas de chauffage... Mais c quand ...
Reeds and Shaving cream
... impossible, it's quite easy just to pick up a house and move it. After we had finished our visit there, we went back to Puno for a nap and then headed out to the Carnaval Festival. There was a parade that consisted of dancers in bright costumes. If went ...
Puno
Alarm goes off way too early. Morning bus to Puno. I have good conversations in Spanish with a local businessman and with a Spanish couple. In Puno I run into Rick from Huaraz. In 5 minutes he is leaving for Copacabana. He is traveling ...
Lago Boobypoopoo
... "old" culture was represented by the Quechua speaking people and their protests to make Quechua the official language of Peru. Their traditional clothing stood out amongst the typical European style dress; bright colors, native patterns, funny ...
the islands of Lake Titikaka
The boat left early Saturday morning. There were about twenty people on my tour: Irish, French, German, Austrian, and Peruvian. It was a fun group. Our first stop was the Uros Islands. They are these floating masses of tortora reeds. The people ...
Arequipa - Puno
Visite du couvent Santa-Catalina de Arequipa - une ville dans la ville Bus de Arequipa à ...
Puno, Peru
... the available hostels, most of which were tucked down dark, damp alleyways with small hand-scrawled signs. We needn´t have worried as Puno turned out to be wonderfully safe and welcoming and our hostel was not only ridiculously cheap but run by a super ...