Puno Plaza Hotel
Puno 419 - 425 Puno, 051, Peru
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Lake Titicaca
Wednesday morning we went out on a boat on Lake Titicaca which is highest fresh water lake at 12,500 feet in elevation. The first stop was at the floating reed islands of Uros. There are about 54 islands that make up the Uros. The process of making the islands was quite interesting. They use many layers of reeds laid on top of a base of big squares …
Cusco to Puno
We left Cusco at 7:00 am to drive to Puno, a distance of about 240 miles. It's a challenge to be packed and ready to go that early.
Our first stop was at Andahualiyas to visit a church known as the American Sistine Chapel. The church is very ornate, with gold altars and mural covered walls and ceilings. The church is currently under …
5 star all the way
The preordered taxi arrived on the dot to get me to the train. Their was a Peruvian quartet playing at the station, who joined us on the train for entertainment in the club car!
The train was worth every US dollar, quite an experience. Spectacular views and a quick 10 hours.
The food was buenisimo and the service also.
I even got to …
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The Lake with the Funny Name
... around everywhere. I was not impressed with Uros and glad that our “zip ya down” stop only lasted about 35 minutes.
From then we realized that it was another 2 hours and 15 minutes to the further island, which definitely didn’t look like a three hour boat ride on the map. Turns out, it took so long because we were on the slowest boat known to man. In fact I probably could have paddled faster than we were going. So Jon ...
For One Night Only
... as I was photographing her playing with two tiny lttle puppies. So cute.
After our tour of teh island we were offered to dress in traditional clothing which we kindly declined though others were seen dressed up. It was quite amusing to say the least. Then the Mercedes Benz arrived. A thatched boat also crafted out of the reeds transported all of us to the next island. It is a two story boat that has to rowers ...



