Hostal Helena Inn Puno
Ayachucho 609 Puno, Peru
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Goodbye Bolivia, Hello Peru!
We left the hotel at 7:30 this morning to catch our bus, which took us to Lake Titicaca. We crossed the lake at its narrowest point, the Estrecho de Tiquina. We had to get off the bus and take a small motor boat across, while the bus went across on its own. It did not look particularly secure on its ferry, but it made it across. Then we drove to …
The floating islands
We had breakfast with our family this morning, then got back on the boat to visit the Uros before returning to Puno. The Uros are floating islands made out of reeds. Apparently the people who inhabit these islands have been making and living on them for 2000 years! They constantly need to replenish the reeds and the island gets thicker and thicker …
Lake Titicaca and homestay
Time for another update... Puno is a small town on the Peruvian shore of lake Titicaca. There is not a huge amount to do there so most of us spent time in the internet cafes uploading our photographs....which took a while as the connection was quite slow! Our main reason for being in Puno was to go and visit several of the islands on the lake. The …
Lake Titicaca and the floating Islands
Ola Amigos,
The next stop on our tour is Puno, to the East of Peru and famous for Lake Titicaca. There is not much to do in Puno apart from the Lake so we took a three hour boat trip to one of the Islands in the middle of the lake (we were very close to the Bolivian border at this point as it intersects the lake).
The island was …
Lake Titicaca
Puno je 3850m vysoko a je to pobrezni mesto jezera Titicaca, ktere je povazovano za nejvyse polozene velke jezero na svete. V Puno toho nebylo moc k delani. Druhy den nas na kolech odvezli do mistniho pristavu odkud jsme lodi jeli na ostrov Taquile kde jsme stravili odpoledne prochazkou po ostrove. K veceru jsme prejeli na poloostrov Laguana Chicke …



