Hostal San Carlos Puno

A. Ugarte 161 Puno, Peru

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A BUMP IN THE ROAD

A travel blog entry by sgaudun

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Interesting bus ride down from the highlands of Ecuador to the Peruvian border-the highlands decreased in size and the valleys got wider. Crossing the border was easy but then the adventure began. About 30 minutes later as the bus was barrelling through Peru the bus shook from a loud exploding tire-quite impressive. After trying to fix the tire and …

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Broken bones and beventful busrides

A travel blog entry by katrinawm

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Puno was a pretty unimpressive town, mainly a port for people to visit the floating islands. I only spent Thursday night there but quite a lot happened.

I took my bandages off and my ankle was ginourmous and really gross and blue so I thought it was probably a good idea to go to the doctor. The doctor took an X-Ray then took me to a specialist. They both said my ankle is ...

“Rock Puma” aka Lake Titicaca

A travel blog entry by lynnsey

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... foreign visitors while the others remain closed off. NOW, props to them for keeping to the Uros BUT they shop on the mainland for their food. in the middle of our guide’s schpeel a snack boat pulled up and the women ran over to snatch up Pringles, Snickers, Gatorade and LOAD of Coca Cola. definitely killed their authenticity vibe they were trying to sell us. HA!

growing up, Lake Titicaca was always said followed by a lot of giggles. lot of growing up ...

Lake Titicaca

A travel blog entry by petemacleod

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I got into Puno at 4.30am. Of course
the luggage storage wasn’t open then. I went up stairs and had the
worst breakfast of my life- revolting pancakes that were inedible. I
decided I should just get a hostel instead of my original plan of
getting another bus over the border to Copacabana, which like Puno is
by Lake Titicaca. (This is actually the original Copa rather than the one in Brazil) I reckoned that doing one side of the Lake ...

Wunderschönes Taquile

A travel blog entry by traveltussie

... seit vor einigen Jahren der Motor der Pumpe für den Brunnen um die Ecke kaputt gegangen ist. Unser Mittagessen des ersten Tages nahmen wir mit Celso zusammen im kommunalen Restaurant ein, in dem die Familien abwechselnd kochen und das Geld geht an die Kommune. Nach einer kurzen Rast für uns in Celsos Haus, während der er die nächste Ladung vom Schiff zum Haus schleppte, bekamen wir eine lange Inselführung, bergauf und ab an allen Ruinen und Kultstätten vorbei. ...