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Lodging Samana Inn Puno

Jr. Azoguine N0 202 Puno, Peru

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Getting Higher, Getting Colder

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... Everyone has been walking around with baby Jesus´in cradles and there have been fireworks blasting all day and all night ever since Christmas. After freezing our butts off on the rooftop for a few hours, we crawled into bed and called it a night.

The next morning we had a 9AM tour booked to see the floating islands of Uros. Altogether there are 50 islands made from nothing but reeds and aquatic plants. The islands are about 7 metres in ...

Idiot Abroad 2

A travel blog entry by sim_and_mike

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... are to scare off a mole type creature rather than birds (not quite sure how that works?). We walked to the top of the hill where she showed us the school her 6 year old son Luis Marius goes to. She isn´t married, as in this community it is most important to have a house first, where she lives with her partner Rolando and several chickens. Rolando is a fisherman but plants ...

Mother Balaria´s House

A travel blog entry by becca_john2011

... we had a dinner of soup and pasta with Mama Balaria, her husband and daughter Mellisa. The family spoke in Quechua and we were given some basic phrases so we could communicate with the family a little. Then we got dressed up in the traditional outfits and went to a ´party´at the town hall for dancing (or running around the room in a big trail). The outfits were blouses, under skirts which were then covered in a huge skirt accompanied by a black veil ...

Puno & Lake Titicaca

A travel blog entry by esteban.y.inga

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... It seemed as if half of the city turned into a market. We ate granadilla's and tuna.Granadilla: Some kind of passionfruit, with hard shell that you can break, and with grey sweet slippery pits on the inside. (a bit like a heavy cold on the third day ;-) ). It doesn't sound tasty, but it is delicious!Tuna: Fruits of some kinds of cactus. You can get them in all kind of colors, very fresh and juicy.By coincidence we passed by the busstations, so we could ...

Lake Titicaca and the Floating Islands

A travel blog entry by heatherebekah

... by a ring like in western culture, but instead by color of clothing. For example, a married man wears a woven pure red floppy elf hat. A single man wears a white hat witha red tip and places the floppy tip either on the right or the left to let people know if he is looking for a relationship or not.

This trip we visited from the Peru side. We started with a quick visit to the floating islands. These are manmade structures ...

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