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After morninf breakfast we got showered and sorted some washing out. We then decided we would take a walk on our own around the pleasant town. We visited and walked past the plaza de armas which had a pretty looking church but nothing spectacular. We carried on walking down the steepish hill heading towards the lake at the bottom. It was fair to say the views of the lake did not disappoint. Looking back on Puno was also lovely to see the character of this small town. After doing the tourist thing of taking a collection of random photos we both [View Full Entry]

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Church in Plaza
Food Market
View of Puno´s Backdrop

By Morganne
November 19th 2009
Lake Titikaka South America » Peru » Puno » Lake Titicaca
Haha, fooled you. You thought I was coming home last week after Machu Picchu. Nope! I wasn´t quite ready to come home then so I extended my trip and have just come back ashore after exploring the world´s highest navigable lake in the world and the largest in South America - Lake Titicaca. And just so you know, it´s Ti-ti-cha-cha (think the old jewish guy joke with the fly in the soup). Here is what I have to say about Lake Titicaca. It´s a beautiful lake but please oh please, DON´T GO!!! I read an online article before I left SF [View Full Entry]

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Reliant le Pérou a la Bolivie, le plus haut lac navigable de la planète (4000 m d'altitude!) couvre de ses eaux bleues et transparentes plus de 8000 km2, et est parsemé de plus de 30 iles. Ce lac déborde d'histoire, de légendes, de sites sacres et et de vie car ses traditions ancestrales se perpétuent encore aujourd'hui tout au long de ses rives. Nous avons séjourné sur les iles Amantani et Taquile. Il n'y a pas d' hôtels ou de restaurants sur ces iles mais les habitants ouvrent leurs maisons aux hotes de passages. Les conditions d'hébergements et d' hygiène sont [View Full Entry]

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Heading towards the floating islands of the Uros
Heading towards the floating islands of the Uros
Heading towards the floating islands of the Uros

We left Cusco by bus, heading for Puno on Lake Titicaca. The scenery as we climbed out of the Cusco valley was spectacular, winding up through lush green agricultural fields up to the rocky snow covered peaks and to La Raya pass at 4,321 metres. Then across vast desolate and endless altiplano, topped with impossibly blue skies. The bus journey took rather longer than expected due to roadworks, but after a final climb, we suddenly had a view of the highest ‘navigable’ lake in the world, Lake Titicaca. Puno, is quite a big town, although relatively in the middle of nowhere! [View Full Entry]

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Snowy peak view
The train line from Cusco to Puno
Pass at 4,300 metres

Floating islands... yes they do exist, and there are 40 of them in total, all bobbing about in Lake Titicaca on the Peruvian side. How? They’re made entirely from totora reeds. They pull up the roots, tie them all together to create like a huge raft, and then layer dried reeds on the top. Their houses are made from reeds, they use reeds to light their fires for food, they eat the reeds, and they make boats from the reeds. I was fascinated by the many uses they managed to get out of such a readily available plant! We took a [View Full Entry]

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Lady weaving on the reed island
The front of the reed boat
Chief of the island

By codemonkey
October 31st 2009
31st October South America » Peru » Puno » Lake Titicaca
Lago Titicaca, The Uros islands, 10am. Standing on a floating manmade island made solely out of reeds, somewhere within the world’s highest navigable lake, it’s an odd feeling. Lago Titicaca is big, really big, so big it spans across two countries. On our way here our guide pointed into the distance and said that Bolivia was in that direction. Even standing on top of the roof of the boat, all I could see right up to the horizon was water - Titicaca is that big. Lago Titicaca is also very sacred around here. It is the heart of the Aymara people’s [View Full Entry]

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Woman of the Uros islands
Boat of the Uros people
Chief!

Today was spent on the lake. We left at 8 and walked down to the private pier by the hotel. And I do mean down, it was loads of stairs! Fifteen minute boat ride took us to the Uros Islands, aka the Floating Islands. They are inhabited by the Uros Indians. In pre-Incan times, they were forced off the land and started living on reed house boats in the southern part of the lake. In the late 1930s/early 1940s there was a drought that forced them back on to the shore. After the drought ended, they came up with the idea [View Full Entry]

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By Mindy
October 16th 2009
Cusco to Puno South America » Peru » Puno » Lake Titicaca
Greetings from the shore of Lake Titicaca. Up this morning at 7 am with a massive headache. My sinuses are completely blocked and my head was pounding. Had a quick breakfast and then we went right across the street to the monastery of Santo Domingo. It was actually kind of interesting, its built on top of an Incan temple complex, and there are a few nice stones and arches. After that we walked along the backstreets to the Plaza de Armas (main square) looking at some more Inca stonework. After that, I went back to the hotel and a bunch of [View Full Entry]

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Titicaca ja hyvästit Perulle Matka Cuscosta Titicacalle alkoi jälleen aikaisin aamulla - täällä kun lähdetään johonkin, tapahtuu se aina suorastaan käsittämättömiin aikoihin. Herättävä on 5:30 jotta ehtii bussiin tai junaan tai mihin vaan kulkuvälineeseen. Aikainen lähtö on tarpeen, kun lyhytkin matka kestää aina todella pitkään. Meillä ei ollut kilometreinä edessä mikään kummoinen matka mutta aikaa siihen oli varattu 8 tuntia. Ja se kaikki kyllä menisi. Löysimme bussimme ja totesimme, että paikkamme olivat varattuja. Olimme saaneet bussin yläkerran etupenkistä paikat, mutta joku oli ne jo tyytyväisenä käyttänyt. Selvyyden vuoksi sitten tiedustelimme, että olivatko paikat vaan yleensä sattuneet miellyttämään vai oliko käynyt niin, [View Full Entry]

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Bussiavustaja Cuscossa
Vuoria ja tulivuoria riittaa
Perun Altiplanoa

By Ciap
October 10th 2009
Titicaca South America » Peru » Puno » Lake Titicaca
Il lago Titicaca... luogo al centro della cultura andina. [View Full Entry]

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