After a great stay in Cusco, with time to actually kick back and relax a bit, we've moved on to a small port city called Puno which is on the banks of the ´famous' Lake Titicaca (highest navigable lake in the world). The trip was pretty amazing. We´ ve climbed in alitude from Cusco and now sit at around 3800m which makes for a bit of trouble bre...

We were told that the floating islands on Lake Titicaca weren´t worth the trip but since our bus from Copacabana to Cusco was stopping in Puno for a few hours, we decided to pay them a visit. We put our bags in the Tour Peru bus company office in Puno. From there, the company provided a mini bus to the port where we got a ferry to the islands. T...

Lake Titicaca er en idyllisk innsjo i Andesfjellene. Det er ogsaa mulig aa se over til Bolivia herfra ettersom Peru deler innsjoen med Bolivia. Vi bestilte en guida todagers tur paa innsjoen. Vi besokte tre oyer paa. Den forste oya var menneskelagd. De som bodde paa oya lagde den av sivet som vokser i vannet. De smaa husene de bor i er ogsaa lag...

Dec 3rd We checked out of our very cosey Hostel Quarchaska and got our 8am bus to Puno that lay on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world at 3,800m and the larges in South America. The trip took most of the day. The scenery changed as we drove through endless valleys and small colonial towns and villages, each with ...

Pro - high altitude live futbal game, views of Lake Titicaca, and best hot donuts in the world! Con - 3 hours of choppy boat ride through the lake while trying to acclimate to the altitude. I´m still rocking as I write this! Still hanging around this altitude to acclimate before we start the Inca trail. Chris puked just once, but he´s hanging in...

After a cold & mostly insomnia ridden night we emerged reluctantly for a surprising tasty breakfast. Scrambled eggs butties & enough coffee to keep you wired for a week. Got talking to a lovely couple with plenty of tips & hints about Cuzco, saying how lovely it was so looking forward to getting there. We'd already decided against vi...

After a very cold and uncomfortable bus ride we arrived in Puno at about 4.45am. After sitting around at the bus station for an hour or so and being hounded by agents to take them up on guided trips, we finally let one guy called Oscar talk us into going with him. We went to his hostel first for what was supposed to be a hot shower and ended up ...

I finally have time to get this blog started! Let me start with a hearty ¡Hola Amigos y Amigas! I'm writing to you from the town of Puno, Perú, right on the shores of famous Lake Titicaca. To recap briefly the last few days, here's what I've been up to: 1) Flew from Toronto to Lima last Friday night. Uneventful flight, though landing anywhere in...

Decided to chop my hair off today. So I went to a salon in one of the mall and in terrible Spanish and plenty of hand gestures, managed to convey that I wanted her to cut my curls off. The hairstylist spoke no English and I understood no Spanish. But somehow, she got that I wanted a haircut and not some mohawk. Cost? 20 soles. Which is about USD...

The Uros Islands are in the National Park 40 mins by boat from Puno on lake Titicaca. The water is 90% fresh water and 10% salt water. The meaning of the word Titicaca is 'Rock that controls the movement of 2 suns' in the Aimara language. Over 600 years ago the inhabitants lived on the mainland but were forced off and decided to live in reed can...