Hotel Sillustani Puno
Lambayeque 195 Puno, -, Peru
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Puno and Lake Titicaca
Leaving Cusco on the Inka Express bus (allegedly the best bus), we headed off to Puno. The journey was 8 hours long, but there were 5 planned stops on the way for sightseeing. The price included lunch and a guide. We did not expect much for lunch. The guide must have used the phrase 'my friends' at the start of nearly every other sentence - and he …
On the shores of Lake Titicaca
Thursday 5th June Alison: We were up at 3.00 for our transfer to the airport to fly to Juliaca, which was a bit tough on all of us, but finally we arrived there to be met by our guide Javier, a nice chap who actually lives on the floating islands with his Uros family. Juliaca is a dusty, busy commercial hub of the high Andes plains and about an …
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The Lake with the Funny Name
... 8230; Another thing that was disappointing about our visit to Titicaca was that the minority people there seem overly-exploited by tourism. I know that even though the minority peoples in southern China (Dali) and northern Vietnam (Sapa) are also visited by many, many tourists, for me those visits just felt a bit more authentic. The people on the lake, especially those on the famous floating islands of Uros, don’t seem to be ...
“Rock Puma” aka Lake Titicaca
... come to a dispute on the SAME island, they simply cut it in half and float away from one another starting their own, new artificial island. HA! Scotty tells me this is a joke but i like it.
-snacks: Peruvians love their corn and lucky me because popcorn is a tasty treat that i very much like. everywhere we go you can buy bags of freshly popped corn. this of course also means that you can buy corn on the cob if you would like. we have also started to ...
Lake Titicaca
... the local eco system. Unfortunately it was served with chips and the perennial portion of rice. Really hoping Bolivians don’t like rice.
We then walked higher up a steep path and out guide said were now at 4000 metres. I definitely felt bad then and had to sit down but as soon as we started walking down I started to feel better. Another 3 hour trip back to shore, mostly spent dozing. Had a great day, felt very random and definitely worthwhile
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