Casa Andina Puno

... it did boast an ATM, so we drew money and hopped in a taxi to the hotel. We stayed in the Casa Andina Classica, which is right in the centre of Puno. A nice enough hotel, clean comfortable rooms and our 1st reliable hot water for days. We booked to see ...

... ; Her name is Rosa. I did some journaling and read some e-mails from home, and at 6:30 we walked up the street to the Casa Andina Private Collection (same chain of hotels as the one we stayed at in Cusco) for dinner.  Jim and I shared a salad with ...

... in their "natural" environment.  But I digress. Our hotel is the Casa Andina Private Collection Hotel (http://www.casa-andina.com/peru_hotels/puno_hotels-2-8.phtm ).  It just opened up for business only 4 months ago.  Very nice ...

... homes even have a tv now. Some people go to work in Puno each day too. Some however, have gone to University in Puno, studied teaching or medicine and have returned to the islands as qualified doctors and teachers, so the infiltration of the western world ...

... harsh.  I know! Puno is seedy. My incoming flight was to Juliaca which is about an hour's drive from Puno.  Juliaca's number one industry is contraband, i.e., counterfeiting and drug running.  It was election day yesterday in Juliaca ...

... down to Puno sleeping...we became known as the ´Sleeping Girls´ according to some Italians we met at lunchtime. Our hotel in Puno was lovely, it was perfectly located on the edge of Lake Titicaca, the views we had at dinner and breakfast were ...

 We arrived in Puno on Monday night and just went out for a pizza for dinner before heading to bed. On Tuesday we had a relaxed day as Mum was suffering quite a lot with altitude sickness -but in the afternoon we visited the Yavari – an old ...

... night, but there is another cab driver awaiting a customer who doesn't seem to turn up, and he is going to a hotel called Casa Andina in Puno.  We decide to grab that cab (there are very few about) and the driver is a lovely bloke telling us about ...

... built on the hillsides much like in San Francisco. In all, the trip took about 70 minutes.  We arrived at our hotel, Casa Andina Private Collection, and got checked in.  Once again, the staff was very friendly and polite.  Once in our ...

... and ready to go out, before having pisco sours at the hotel.  The hotel called us a cab, which we took to Casa Andina La Plaza, in downtown Puno, where Bill and Kerri were staying.  They met us in the lobby, and we headed out to Lima St, which ...

... a beautiful city. So much bigger than I would've thought with over 110,000 people and right in a bay on Lake Titicaca. Our hotel, Casa Andina Private Collection is amazing! Right on the lake, and it looks like a ski lodge (which it should, since it's oney ...

... lake from the top of the town before descending to the hotel. Our driver, bless him, took us to the wrong hotel (there are two Casa Andina Classics in town) and we had to help him with our poor Spanish and our Lonely Planet map. We got there in the end ...

... and went past hundreds of people practicing their Inca dances for a big festival tomorrow that we would miss, then on to our hotel - Casa Andina Private Collection. And what a hotel it was. Only 4 months old. I'd put this place up against some of the ...

... us in the observation car waved back at them. We arrived after dark and are driven to our beautiful hotel in Cusco, the Casa Andina Private Collection.  It is a relic in itself, a beautifully renovated 18th-century manor house, with 3 interior ...

... away,” along with a lot of honking. Scarier than NYC traffic by far.   We make it to the hotel, another Casa Andina Private Collection, and even more gorgeous than the last. A complete opposite of the lodge-style Puno hotel, this was a ...

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