Conde De Lemos Puno
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Getting Higher, Getting Colder
... We took a 40 minute boat-ride from Puno to the islands and were able to visit 2 of them. Quite touristy (as expected) but still pretty neat to see how these people live. We opted to take a reed-boat from one island to the next for 10 soles (about 4 dollars) which apparently suppors the local families in the area. The weather was absolutely perfect, must have been over 20 degrees and even with sunscreen I added to my burn! I am now rocking an ...
Idiot Abroad 2
... on his days off, (a community project we think).
Later we helped (well watched) Roxanna set off nets to catch the fish and then we played volleyball against the ladies in their dresses! It was so surreal but a really special experience.
Thankfully we won our game against our tour guide.
We returned to our house and helped peel tiny vegetables for our dinner of pasta ...
Mother Balaria´s House
... very tight belt. The outfits were extremely uncomfortable as they were so heavy. The boys got off lightly with a poncho.
9th of December
We ate pancakes in the morning, we said goodbye to our mama´s and boarded our boat to travel to a nearby island called Taguile. We went for a walk to begin with which had beautiful views of the miles and miles of the lake. We visited the local village where we could see woollen good been produced. We ...
Puno & Lake Titicaca
... trip for the next day (to La Paz, Bolivia). The rest of the afternoon we rested a bit, and updated our blog again (more time-consuming than you think! ;-) ). We were so happy about the pizza of the previous day that we decided to go for dinner again at Macchu Pizza. To finalize our time in Peru, Steven bought a nice souvenir: A IncaCola T-shirt.IncaCola: The national soda of Peru, tastes like squeezed gummi-bears, extremely sweet but very tasty!
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Lake Titicaca and the Floating Islands
... of years ago to avoid attacks form their aggressive Inca neighbors. The islands are built from sod and huge rafts of bundled totora reeds (which also serve as a source of vitamins for the people), and have to be continually rebuilt. Today the islands have been hugely impacted by tourism and there has been much concern about exploitation of the locals. Once on the islands I was impressed that people could actually survive on islands that ...



