Puno Hotels - Reviews and Rates

We arrived by bus into Puno on Sunday evening and settled into our Hotel, Plaza Major. It is a soulless place and seen better days but the room was a good size with a very large bed and plenty of hot water.

Puno itself is not a place to take to your bosom. I did not find it had any charm but Debbie was less critical. It seems to serve onl...

After our trek to MP we made our way down to Puno. Puno is a completely different city from Cusco and doesn't have any resemblance to it. It's more of a modern type city where there is a lot of commerce etc. Puno is right on the edge of Lake Titicaca and this was the purpose of our visit. Lake Titicaca is the largest high altitude lake in the wo...

Puno and the Highest Navagible lake in the World 12.03.09 Cusco. The day after the Inca trek. Oh my aching calves and thighs. Every step up or down is so painful. We avoid any steps anywhere. After lying in bed half the day we emerge from the hotel for food and drink, out of necessity only. Hobbling around the main square of Cusco we succumb to ...

As all my entries seem to begin, the trip to Puno and lake Titicaca began with a bus ride... but this was a slow (seven hours but was meant to be five), cramped and smelly ride. Some people in some places of the world take great pride in cleanliness, others just keep clean, others could do with deodorant and then there were the people on the bus...

19 September 2008 - Friday A 7am rise got us out of our beds for our pancake and strawberry jam breakfast. Our 'brother' Christiaan then took us down to the port to see us off. The reason our 'mama' and 'papa' didn't join us was because they were getting ready to catch a taxi boat to Puno for a fiesta. Our boat slowly made it's way to the floati...

This will just be a quick update on some of the things that we've done since Nasca. We've been so busy there's barely time to sleep. And internet is always available. We did dune buggies in a real proper desert which was amazing. We stayed a day in the White City, Arequipa, called that because of the volcanic rock they use to build everything is...

The first part of the journey to Puno was once again through great scenery, following both the river and rail track. The second part was through the altoplano which became a bit monotonous apart from the herds of alpaca/llama/vicuna (not sure which!). We stayed a couple of nights in Puno which is on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca in order to...

We arrived in Puno with the now-familiar shortness of breath of being at 3,800m above sea level. Climbing three flights of stairs to our hotel room with our backpacks soon reminded us of that. A quirky festival was going on in the town centre the evening we arrived. Unfortunately I didn´t have my camera with me. It looked like all the towns´ sol...

Floating islands These islands are actually floating, they are really really cool. The people who live (Uros) here made these islands in an effort to isolate themselves from the Collas (another tribe) and the Inca's. today several hundred people still live on the islands. The islands are made from laying layers of reeds on something that looks l...

Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world at 3812m above sea level, with a surface area of 8372 square kms, and has over 40 man made floating islands. We arrived to the lakeside town of Puno on sunday and booked our trip to the floating islands for monday. Off we set at 6.50am on our boat and arrived at the first of the Uros islan...