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Joya del Titicaca Puno

Arequlpa 522 Puno, Peru

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The Lake with the Funny Name

A travel blog entry by eliswift4

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... in time. Eventually we found the Tawantinsuyu Inn which was a tiny, nondescript hotel with bare rooms, the world’s smallest and most uncomfortable bed, and probably the most unhelpful staff I’ve ever encountered in a hostel. This was super annoying to us because the reason we had decided to go cheap in Puno ( the room was 28 bucks a night) was because we figured a hostel would be able to help us book tours to visit places ...

We made it!!! Were in Peru!!!

A travel blog entry by lindsey-canada

57

... All the time I am thinking oh god who is this man!!! But when we got there everything was legit and I breathed a sigh of relief… for the moment. The weather had changed to the worse! We got on this boat and headed towards the floating islands.

For those of you who don’t know what the floating islands are islands that are made out of mud, reeds, and plants! These people made their own islands with the reeds that are sticking ...

The nicer part of the beautiful lake

A travel blog entry by luharris

5

... has the caca. They were not wrong, despite bad reports from other travellers we found Puno much more organised, and a welcoming and refreshing change to Bolivia. We got off the bus and found a taxi driver straight away who spoke English and showed us where the hospital was. He then took us to the hostel we had chosen, when we got there it looked a bit of a dive and luckily no one answered the door so our taxi man walked us round the corner to another hostel that is more ...

Puno, very cool little town

A travel blog entry by meganmacnab

... from Puno, one of the most dangerous towns, and we take crazy Tuk Tuk's through the town. This town is famous for the black market, you can buy anything here, no tax and no invoice... We finally get to Puno. Now each town we have visited has a central square or plaza, with a Catholic church, this town is no different. Puno is bigger than any place we have been to  so far except Lima. We have a dinner at a local place which ...

Puno und die Uros Inseln

A travel blog entry by traveltussie

... und darüber einer ca. 1 Meter dicken Schilfschicht. Das Volk der Uros lebt schon seit Generationen auf diesen selbstgemachten Inseln. Die Schichtungen müssen ständig erneuert werden, da sie im Wasser verrotten. Überall fuhren kleine Boote umher, die hoch beladen waren mit frisch geschnittenem Schilf zum Ausbessern der Inseln. Das Schilf wächst in dieser Region des Sees in großen Mengen und wird für alles verwendet. Die Häuser werden daraus gebaut mit ...