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Puno/Lake Titicaca
On Wednesday we spent all day on a train from Cuzco to Puno (where Lake Titicaca is). Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world. If anyone can explain the significance of navigable, i´m sure it would make it a much more rewarding experience for us. Again, we ditched our reserved hotel for a better one. Cute and near the town …
Getting the hell out
We woke up (do the sound of a donkey) and agreed our mission should be to get to Puno back in Peru to organise more island trips. Ferry returned in blazing sun the Copacabana. We had a quick average taco lunch, picked up our bags and bought bus ticket to Puno. Border crossing fine. On bus we took up offer of free taxi to hotel where rooms were offered at 25 Soles (10usd each), 'SPECIAL RATE'. The hotel did not disappoint and Clare & I enjoyed ...
Lake Titicacca
... a bit pink at the end of the day. First stop on the lake was the floating islands made of reeds where local tribes live. This is really very clever: they cut the root beds of the reeds and lash them together where they mesh over the period of a year. On top of this layer of mud/root bed, they then lay appx a metre of cut reeds. They tether these islands with long wooden stumps and then build houses on them, also out of reeds. If you fall out ...
Lake Titikaka...a bad moment for English football
... no whipping this time). After lunch, it was a leisurely 40 minute walk across the island back to the boat before an hour crossing to Amantani Island where we would be staying the night with a local family.
First priority when arriving on Amantani Island was heading to the school football pitch for the inaugural Gringos vs Islanders football match. It didn´t go well. A man that looked about 80 went zapping up and down the pitch, ...
Lac Titicaca ( côté Péruvien )
... Le sol reste ainsi toujours souple et élastique. Nous reprenons ensuite le bateau pour l'isla Amantani sur laquelle nous resterons jusqu'au lendemain. Nous sommes hébergés chez l'habitant et profitons ainsi du mode de vie traditionnel. Les repas se préparent à même le sol en terre battue et sans électricité , nous nous éclairons ainsi à la bougie. Leurs modes de vie ressemblent à ceux de nos ...
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