Colon Inn Puno

Jr. Tacna Nro 290 Puno, Peru

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Uros- The floating Islands

A travel blog entry by hegetage

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Et ganske turistisk sted, men som måtte besøkes!
Hege var ikke for begeistret, men lot seg overtale :-)

"Islas Flotantes" ligger bare en kort båttur fra byen Puno, ved Titicacasjøen helt sør i Peru.
Der er 50 øyer totalt, som huser Uros-folket, hvorav ca 200 bor der fast, mens mange har flyttet inn til byen, og kun jobber her for …

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“Rock Puma” aka Lake Titicaca

A travel blog entry by lynnsey

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... there on the spot.

FACT: the artificial islands are TRULY, ONE HUNDRED percent floating. SWEET! and they have been around for FIVE HUNDRED YEARS.

MORE FACTS: the Ima people created the Uros when they had to flee from the mainland in order to avoid being captured as slaves by the conquistador invaders coming to Puno for the gold and silver. fire the guy whose idea it was to build the silver path for them, ha. there were actually two tribes at the ...

Puno and the Floating Islands

A travel blog entry by netgull

... through Juliaca, which must be about the ugliest city I have seen in my life! There is building works everywhere, but it doesn't seem to be because the city is expanding, but simply because nothing finishes around here! Almost all the buildings are columns of cement and bricks. No fassades, no paint. And metal rods expanding from the top, as if the building will continue in the future. A guide on the bus explains that they simply build ...

Wunderschönes Taquile

A travel blog entry by traveltussie

... waren und entschieden uns bei ihnen unterzukommen und so wanderten wir mit Huanna und Wilfredo die steilen Wege vom Hafen hinauf zum Zentrum der Inseln, wo sie unweit von der Schule auf einem Berg ein kleines Anwesen haben.

Anwesen trifft es wirklich ganz gut, auch wenn es hier kein fliessendes Wasser und keinen Strom gibt. Die kleinen einfachen Wohngebäude waren u-förmig um einen kleinen Innnenhof angeordnet und von der offenen Seite mit einer kleinen ...

Lake Titicaca and the Floating Islands

A travel blog entry by heatherebekah

... on their tops. Along with most Titicaca islands, Amantani is terraced and families farm different segments for wheat, potatos and vegetables.

Next we visited Taquile an island 45 kilometers east of Puno (the city on the mainland that we launched our adventures from). Like Amantani, culture on Taquile has remained largely unchanged by the 21st century. It is no uncommon to see a woman hauling wheat from her fields using ...

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