Hotels in Puno

... . The prices of accommodation and food are rather low, although the cities like Lima or Arequipa do have some really expensive hotels and restaurants. The shops are well-stocked, especially in the big cities. The safety is not an issue, although it ...

... " 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 place.  A group of ...

... 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 sesame-seed encoated camembert and a ...

... drive, the vegetation was lush, we had beautiful blue skies and we were surrounded by snow capped mountains.  At Puno we changed buses and were now accompanied by Ruven.  We visited an area called Sillustani where there is a ...

... hillsides. The main town in the island, also called Taquile, has a textile cooperative shop, some small restaurants, there are no hotels but rooms are available  in family houses where visitors can stay for the night. We climed the steep path up ...

... on our Lake Titicaca tour at 7.30am. On the way to the port we had the standard pick-ups from varuious hostels and hotels in Puno, and clambered across five or six other boats before finally reaching ours! We set off on the fist boat journey, about forty ...

Kris: So, our hotel in Puno was not exactly as nice as the hotels we'd stayed at in Cusco.  As I said in the previous entry, our view was a cement wall.  That was pretty awesome.  The door into the room was like plywood, it certainly ...

... dressed up in really convincing costumes, some as young as 2 or 3 with their parents. The children converged on restaurants, hotels and other shops where the shopkeepers had buckets of sweets ready and waiting. The Plaza’s and in particular the ...

... ! The Puno section of our guidebook was tiny and it was also 0 for 2, so we asked the taxi driver if he knew any decent hotels. Cue 4 minutes of rapid fire Spanish and us looking at each other with open mouths and sinking hearts. In the end he took us to ...

... in the slum area of town - not a place you want to be left in carrying heavy bags. We fought off the touts trying to get us to hotels that give them "back-handers" & got a taxi. One of the touts even got in our taxi, he got out when we told him we already ...

... - they even eat them! We carried on in our local boat to another island called Isla Amantani , there are no hotels or hostels here so travelers are met at the harbor by mothers of local households offering you a bed and evening meal for the ...

... Puno. When we eventually reach Puno we are met by 2 small buses that tjhat take us to our accommodation. We are in THREE STAR HOTELS! with ensuite bathrooms, cable TV, minbars ..... The only draw back is Puno is at high altitude and some of us are on the ...

... traces sont des statuettes avec des têtes coupées en trophée et des rites cannibales.     Destination Puno, arrivée a 17h30. À l'arrêt de bus quelques Tours opérateurs attendent le touriste pour lui vendre tous types de prestations. ...

... across the border took us to the Peruvian town of Puno. As soon as we left the bus we were pounced upon by touts offering hotels and tours. Despite insisting that we had a reservation and didn´t want any help, it took us a long time to shake them off ...

... problem.  Arrivl at 9.30 pm at Puno. Too dark to see the lake Titicaca. The two groups split and go in their respective hotels Half the group go for a pizza, while the rest opted for chicken, in a much rougher nad working class town ...

... the remains of a series of funereal towers from both Inca and pre-Inca times. We´re currently writing this sitting at the hotels free internet machine watching some kind of protest march go by. We know we´re way behind on the photos, might catch ...

... back for a third time! Good flight up to Lima. When we arrived very confused, met with a hoard of touts selling places at hotels, hundreds of taxi men pestering us, buses didn´t seem to exist. Finally got an official taxi who was boxed in so he reversed ...