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Uros Islands
After breakfast, Bill and I helped to guide 18 sheep and 2 goats from their overnight pen to pasture and then t ied their ropes to pegs in the ground. The goats got away and I was able to catch one and the eldest sister in the family captured the other. Again, it is not so easy running after a goat on hilly, rocky terrain at 3800 metres altitude …
Lake Titicaca - Write your own punchline!
After our epic Machu Picchu adventure, we bid adeiu to our tour group and flew from Cusco to Juliaca. Zabeen talked to an interesting guy on the plane who basically laid out his life story - in summary, he had a newborn grandchild from his 19 year old son and his 16 year old girlfriend, and a 4 year old child of his own named Trinity. Wow! He then …
In West Philadelphia Born and Raised...
Hola Amigos!
After my hammer exploits on the street of Cusco and making one last trip to Jack´s Cafe for the BEST hot chocolate in the World (so good that it beats M&S and I love their hot choco; and so good Ket got over excited and spilt 3/4 of it over one of our travelling pals) we journed by bus to Puno. Now, this was not just any …
Arriving in Peru
We set off from La Paz to cross Lake Titicaca and the border into Peru. Lake Titicaca sits between Bolivia and Peru and is 3,812 meters above sea level, making it the highest commercially navigable lake in the world. We were told that we would be getting a ferry across the lake. My English thinking led me to believe that it would be a ferry you …
Cusco to Puno
After a huge night out on the town in Cusco an early morning start to the day meant that a few of us in the group only had a couple of hours sleep. Luckily for us all today was purely a travel day on a double decker sweat box coach from Cusco to Puno (which is where Lake Titicaca starts).
A trip through the Peruvian countryside was good …
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