Blogs from Puno, Puno, Peru, South America - page 11

We are still in Puno. Yesteday, I went to the pharmacy again, hoping to get some medicine that would help Macayla. Thankfully, we ran into a guy there that was able to translate. The pharmacist gave me something with amoxicillan in it. Macayla has been taking that but unsure if it is helping. She felt better this morning, but when we went out for a bite to eat, she was exhausted after walking very briefly. She felt weak and dizzy. This will be the third day that we are pretty much staying in from doing much of anything. I am a bit concerned that she is not bouncing back as quickly as I thought. Hopefully we can get to the islands tomorrow. We have been in Puno for a long time; almost a week. I am ... read more

Hello everyone, Well, we made it to Puno on Friday evening. We had reservations at the Bothy hostel in Puno, but when we arrived we found that they had overbooked. Two other couples were in the same boat. Anyway, we were transported to a new hostel but we were not happy with it. We stayed that night but quickly went out the next morning to find something else. Saturday morning we found hostel Vylena only block from the main square. We quickly checked in there. We have been there ever since because Macayla is ill. I think that she has the flu and is begging me to go home. Have tried to change to an earlier flight home but something is wrong with the airline website. Hopefully they fix it soon or I will have to ... read more

And so to Peru, where its got to be said, any south american saying that word is pretty sexy!! We jumped into 2 three wheeled bicycles with driver who raced each other to the border, yep I won, but through no effort on my part obviously. We then travelled for about 3 hours arriving in Puno around 7pm. The next day we took a boat across the harbour of Lake Titicaca as I made Sarah, Marcello and Jesus visit the oldest boat on the Lake 'The Yavari' It was built in England and then disassembled and transported to Peru in pieces, via ship, train and finally mule. It was supposed to take 6 months but ended up taking six years. Anyway you can imagine how excited they all were to be visiting an old boat, but ... read more

Puno - 15th to 17th of March. We got a night cama bus (cama was used in the looses sense) to Puno and arrived about two hours before we were meant to. Typical - South American efficiency when you don't want it. Luckily, we were able to stay in a guesthouse type thing for 15 soles each a night and could check straight in, paying only for the next night, even though it was 5am. After a nap we discovered there was no hot water but the man assured us there would be some in an hour so we ventured out and got some pizza. I dropped my bank card in the restaurant and there was a point in the day where I thought it was gone forever but luckily I was able to get it ... read more

In no particular order... * The People! Our group was 16 people from the US, Canada, England, Australia, Holland (Kim from Amsterdam hiked in her Birkenstocks, smoking all the way!), and New Zealand, plus 2 guides. Everyone got along really well. We became fast friends and everyone helped each other out. It was nice to walk and talk with different people along the trail. It was so hard for us to separate that many of us had dinner together the following night. * The Porters! These guys are legends! We felt good about how the company we went with (Peru Treks and Adventures) treated them. Our guys had matching pants and jackets, good shoes, headlamps, proper backpacks, etc. There were 20 porters for the 18 of us and they carried all the tents, food and supplies. ... read more