Royal Inn Hotel Puno

... how there would be anyone to play on them, or if they were not used at all, or perhaps they were there as monuments to eager youngsters. For almost the entire bus ride we travelled parallel to, weaved across and close to the railtracks.<br><br>About an hour before we arrived at Juliaca we stopped to pick up two passengers. There were no seats and one of them was drunk. Whilst standing in the asile he first attempted to have a conversation with us and was quite polite, "No ...

... talked quite a bit considering i only know a little Spanish and the daughter only knew a little English, most of the communicating was done with a lot of smiles, laughing, gesturing, and patience! I had purchased a bunch of toys and things for the kids before i left home and was excited to give them to the kids, it was well worth the money and carrying around all that stuff just to see the looks on their faces and how happy they were with everything. I got a ...

... Quechua speaking family (the mother speaks very little Spanish, but the husband and sons a bit more) Their house was simple. Constructed of adobe, the house was a sturdy 2 story structure with 2 rooms. A french pair with limited spanish stayed with our family as well. The kitchen was a basic adobe room with a traditional wood burning stove in the corner. There was no running water and the room was dark with few windows. A ...

... means he´s looking... Also, couples must live together for one year before they marry and during this time the woman weaves a belt/back support thingy depicting stories of their year together. This contains their real hair inside the weaving for strength and the man wears it when working for ever after... I thought this is a lovely tradition.<br><br>After lunch we walked down the ´500 steps´, which are apparently quite famous, though don ...

... is was), we still declined... - luckily as when we got to town we booked the same tour for much cheaper, with one of the million agencies that were still open despite the national holiday!<br><br>We had a chilled out day, went on the internet, had a good set lunch (almuerzo) for very cheap, including a free glass of wine and had an early night ready for our island tour the next day.<br>Checked out of our hostal and left our rucsacs (and was charged for breakfast when we had been ...

... of the island (4200 meters = 13,780 feet) to watch the sunset. Once the sun sets, it gets REALLY cold &amp; dark REALLY fast! Thank goodness Esmerelda met us or I don´t think we ever would have found the way back to their house. <br><br>So we hurried back to Felicia´s for dinner before the evening entertainment - a dance! We got to dress in traditional clothes (over our regular clothes). We all enjoyed a few beers to cool ...

We have returned on bus the way we came, it´s much much cheeper and you get to see lots of the Lake. We book our onwards ticket to Cusco for tomorrow ALL in Spanish !!!!! which we are pleased about. We are trying to catch up with the blog as you can see as being in the rainforest we couldn´t do it. <br><br> We have limited time ...

... them. on our way down the mountain we decided to take a different route which leads to La gran caverna, which is a huge cave that is said to be the biggest and highest in the world. the hike down to the cave was intense and steep, and we thought it was a better way to get down to mahcupichu. mistake. we got down there only to find out that we had to hike back up the mountain to get back down to machupichu. what was supposed to be a 30min hike down, ended up ...

... br> by thousands of Aymara Indians.<br><br> <br><br> We had a great time!! The students we had in our groups were mostly our age <br> and eager to learn. We used books provided by the school and added our own material <br> in the shape of songs, transripts of lyrics, discussions, role plays, pronunciation <br> classes. It took quite a bit more work than 20 hours a week because we also <br> had to check homework and tests, and create our own ...