Los Pinos Puno

... views for many miles to the two Cordillera mountain ranges on either side with snow-capped peaks. We stayed at Hostal Los Pinos in Puno which was nice, a hotel rather than a hostel with a really nice owner and old skool wood panelled rooms with ...

... years, last time me and Juliette had dinner in the market stalls because we were scared to walk around with no street lights around the chaotic market. We check in at the Los Pinos Hostal, a very relaxing place with good hot showers. Tomorrow, Bolivia.

... Inca sights on the way.  So here we are in Puno for the afternoon/night and after just making it to our Hostal Los Pinos http://hostallospinosinn.com/presentation.html in the worlds oldest taxi (thought we were going to have to get out and help ...

... but we decided on a hostel from our guidebooks and asked to be taken there straight. No 2nd options, cousin's places, nothing like that. Los Pinos was a very good choice. We even had TV's in our rooms (showing Motorcycle Diaries - how cool is that?!), and ...

... town looks terrible, an absolute mess, potholes, dirty, ragged buildings   We get a bicycle taxi to the hostel we picked, Los Pinos, he struggles with 2 people and 30kg of luggage, but he asked for it, literally dragged us to his bicycle   ...