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, ...

... we decided on a hostel from our guidebooks and asked to be taken there straight. No second 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 ...

... Prenons un collectivo pour Puno. Petite engueulade avec Thom, pas mechant, juste les nerfs. Arrivee 45 minutes apres. Allons a l'hotel Los Pinos. Allons manger, galere a trouver du poulet a 11 h du matin. Thom rentre dormir et je vais sur internet. ...

... reading my best book yet, Shantaram, so didnīt mind the fact that the boys kept delaying things! Whilst we were in Puno there was a festival going on to celebrate Punoīs anniversary.  The costumes were beautiful and the parades lasted all ...

... our taking off point for the Islands and exploring the lake. Even though it was not a top destination, we still enjoyed what Puno had to offer.  Specifically Pizza and cold beer (we figured we needed some comfort food before 2 days on the islands ...

... nbsp; We timed our trip to coincide with the annual 2-week long festival called the Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria.  Puno is the folklore capital of Peru;  according to our guidebook there are festivals in the region on 300 days of the ...

... Sur and they gave me a deal that was 1/2 the price of the cheats in town so I booked it and headed off. The road to Puno is a bitumen road but it is like driving over corrugated gravel. Its the roughest bitumen road Ive been on in a long while. The first ...

... 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 ...

... who she had met on her trek down this way in 2008, was waiting for us at the bus terminal to take us to his father's hostel, Los Pinos.  The bus driver let us off a few miles away from there but did get us a taxi that drove us there. Unfortunately, ...

... 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   ...

... journey to Cuzco with Tour Peru. Instead we walked 15 minutes round the corner & hooked ourselves up in a sweet, but chilly hotel Los Pinos, as recommended at our last hostel, La Cupula. The town was also in full swing. There are two main plazas, ...

Bus ride via Turismo San Luis Del ...

... werd door de beste companie van Peru (Cruz del Sur), Litoral genaamd. We konden voor 30 Sol (+/- 7.50 euro) naar Puno (een 6 uur durende rit). īs Avonds heeft Astrid zich nog gewaagd aan de wereldberoemde Cuy (Cavia), wat ze zich vlug berouwde aangezien ...

... 35 miles from the city of Puno. It's about 13,500 ft above sea level and is one of many places in the Puno area that has mysterious burial towers, called chullpas. The ones in Sillustani are considered the most impressive. The site overlooks Lake Umayo ...

... Out for a pretty rubbish dinner in the evening, the restaurant was posh but the food was badly done. Early ish to bed as matt was getting up early to do the same trip as me. Helen gonna have a day of rest. One more day in Puno and then off to ...

Our first stop in Peru was Puno - another town, much bigger than Copacabana, on Lake Titicaca. If Iīm being honest, Puno is a real dump!! However, the main plazas and street are great to wonder around and have the odd Mojito on!! Puno is all about the ...

After our tour it was a brief stop back in Puno before the bus to Bolivia the next day.  Michael and I decided it was time to taste guinea pig but Ange was having none of it.  Ange was right.  The texture was horrible - very slimy - ...

Had a bit of a lie in. Matt went off early for his boat trip. Went to the main plaza with Helen for a late brekkie. I had eggs and bacon! The diet really isnt happening. Watched a parade in the square although not sure what it was about. Helen ...