We´d booked a semi-cama bus from Copacabana to Puno and were assured that the minibus that picked us up outside the office was just to take us to the boarder where we would be met by our semi-cama coach. Of course, when we got to the boarder the semi cama coach looked awfully like a minibus - but who were we going to complain to then! As we cros...

I finally got strated with my intrepid tour. My tour guide's name is Edward Grande from Cuzco, the tour has 11 persons 4 of which will continue to Galapagos. There are 3 solo travellers myself included; Jenna is from Sydney, Peter from Leed UK. There are 2 couples Michael and Daniella from Sydney, Justin and Lisa from Brisbane. There are 2 pairs...

Fra Cusco dro vi med buss i ca. 9 timer til Puno ved O´store lago Tiicaca. Dette er soramerikas storste innsjo 170 km lang og 60 km bred mellom Peru og Bolivia. Den er verdens hoyeste (3900moh) navigerbare innsjo. Sola er veldig sterk, og det er kaldt om natta og naar sola er bak skyer. Puno er en kaotisk liten by full av masete selgere, innkast...

Etter en meget slitsom natt pa bussen, der reiseoperatoren anbefalte oss pa det sterkeste a passe pa penger og pass (hvor vi surret armer og bein inn i vesker og alt pikk pakk vi hadde fatt med oss inn) kom vi til Puno ved Lake Titicaca (3.800 m.o.h). Det oste ned og ikke alle hadde utstyrt seg med regntoy (eller nok sovn), sa vi tvilte litt pa ...

Crouching Puma because lake Tittikaka which is beside Puno and Hidden Rushes cause there are a pile of island there where people are living who have made their islands out of rushes! Mad so it is, I would say that they do everything but eat the rushes but they do that as well with them beatin the stalks of the plant into them for calcium or some...

In case you were wondering, yes, many Peruvian tourist sites involve death. I don´t know why. They´re just down with that. Sillustani is a short drive from Puno and consists of giant burial towers that rise out of the rather desolate landscape and can be seen for kilometers. These pre-Inca towers were built by the ancient Colla people, and no on...

From Cuzco we were once again lucky, or unlucky whichever way you want to look at it! and bagged two of the last seats on a very stuffy uncomfortable bus seven hours south to Lake Titicaca. Poor Matt spent most of his birthday cramped up on the bus! The journey was beautiful though, we passed through lots of traditional Andean villages, and stop...

The best thing about Puno was that I managed to eat a full meal of solid foods with relatively minor stomach grumbling, a feat I hadn't accomplished in 5 days. Otherwise, I didn't do much there. After the 3 hr bus ride, Susanna, a Swedish girl who I met on the bus, and I found a hostel, food, and internet, our only real goals for the day. She al...

Monday 9th July 2007 - Friday 13th July 2007 Went to the train station at 7am to catch our train to Puno and found that the trains were not running as the line was blocked with stones due to an ongoing national protest by the teachers. So we headed to bus station to see if we could catch a bus and there was a company running buses that morning t...

Arrived into Puno, Peru via bus from Arequipa for a few days on Lake Titicaca. For those of you that don't know, Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water in the world at 12,500 feet above sea level. My first glimpse of Puno didn't leave much to the imagination...it is pretty much a **** hole. However, it is on the lake and that conti...