Eco Inn Puno

... how they live and build their islands, and then they showed us inside their houses (which are now powered by solar panels so they have some electricity!) and then they took us on a boat ride and sang a song for us and gave us some cute little necklace pendants. We had a great time with them!<br><br>After a great 36 hours (probably the best we&#8217;ve had so far!), we took the boat back to Puno for another night and had lunch and relaxed. Tomorrow we&#8217;re off to Cusco!

... in, and sure enough, reeled at the temperature, it was very cold, but not as cold as I remember at that waterfall in Cotopaxi. I managed to haul myself back on board, the boat wasn&#8217;t fitted with any steps to climb up and it was quite a distance to clamber back on board. There was an old tyre hanging off the side that helped. As I clambered back on board happy to have made it unscathed, Christie insisted that I go in again so that this time she could capture it on ...

... us to Ruben who would be our guide. She also took our 120 soles for the trip. That included 30 soles per adult for the boat trip, a discounted 20 soles for the children, entrance fee and tax for the islands.<br> Our boat left at about 8-20 packed with backpackers, and we weren&#8217;t the only boat. Our first stop was Los Uros which were the floating islands of reed just 25mins from Puno and on the way we passed what looked like fields of grassy reed floating and growing ...

... reconstructed every 3 to 6 months as the reeds decay, so the entire civilization is in a constant state of redevlopment. Truly amazing!<br> After 90 minutes spent visiting Uros, we get back aboard the boat and eat a quick lunch en route back to Puno, where we walk up to meet our local minibus who takes us on a quick ride back to the Balsa Inn where we will have one last night in Peru.<br> Since we have arrived back in Puno ...

A long day of travel today, as we make our way from Cusco to Puno. This is a 7 hour trip, leaving Cusco about 8am and getting into Puno about 330. We took a public bus, but far from the image of chickens running up and down the asile and locals hanging off the sides of the bus...this was quite compfrtable and clean, aside the fact that the bathroom had no ...

Oh my God! how difficult can it be to get a bus ticket and leave the town. I feel like banging my head on the wall. We got back knackered from our trip and went to the Hotel where we had left our bags to get a bus ticket to Cusco, where we are to do the Macchu pichu Trek. <br><br>So we arrive back there and weird 15 yr old kid with scratches on his face forgets to book us back in, just gives us a key to the room and wanders in to the toilet at the back to vomit up whatever he´s ...

... to go home and to my surprise it took not longer as 10 minutes!!!!!!! I have no Idea where I walked this day as I cant explain. A possibility could be that I walked twice arround the Island because an other thing cant be....<br>Anyway finally I saw a big part of Amantani and even the two temples in the top of the Island and for sure a few Comunities (perhapps even all twice). I had great luck that I met the girl, otherwise I would have got definitely lost on the Island <br>

... normale boot" weer terug naar de haven. Een leuk toertje dat zeker de moeite waard is. Na de weer prima lunch boek ik mij busticket naar Cusco. Morgenochtend vertrek ik met de Inka-express naar Cusco en onderweg worden een aantal stops gemaakt om wat bezienswaardigheden te bekijken. De trip gaat al met al zon 9 uur duren dus dat wordt een lange zit. Een mailtje verzonden naar Hostal Marani (www.hostalmarani.com) voor het maken van een reservering.

... early start to head down to the docks (500m away from my hostal) and try to get a boat to the famous floating reed islands of Uros, or as they´re sometimes known, Islas del Floentas. A half day should do it, and then I want to get back to town to catch a 230pm tour to Sulistani, the weird chulpa (chimney tower funeray blocks) about 30km out of Puno. Hope it goes to plan.<br>Ok folks, rgds from Lake Tits, and no Dunx, it´s not Hugh Hefner´s summertime lakeshore retreat!!<br>Chao, Rob.

... in flight. While I got some decent shots, Nicki was most successful given that she has an SLR that can focus more quickly and has more zoom. Once we were done we went back to the bus.<br><br>On the way back the bus insisted on stopping at no less than five separate places; several viewpoints over various terraced valleys, and finally at yet another pointless town with the same old routine of tat merchants and ever-beckoning animal keepers. I know these people make money from ...