Of all the things I might have expected to find 3800 metres above sea level, a dirty great lake wouldn´t have featured highly in that list. Were I lazily scanning Wikipedia articles for facts with which to wow you, I might add that Lago de Titicaca comprises 58,000 square kilometres, and is 190km at its longest point, is nearly 300 metres deep in places, and has around 40 islands. However I'll skip all that, and just tell you it´s big, impressive, and not just a little pretty. Check out this cracking satellite url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Lake_titicaca.jpg/600px-Lake_titicaca.jpg/photo. Following our celebrations for Natalie's birthday and completing of the Inca trail, we were a little delicate boarding the bus to Puno (and the lake) from Cusco. Mentioning no names, but Nat and Kim were a right state. Some of the stray dogs
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