Puno

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Days 31, 32 and 33

We were picked up early in La Paz and headed for the Peruvian border. The trip took about 10 hours including a boat ride over a lake that was in our path! We stopped on the shore of lake Titicaca at a place called Copacabana for lunch. We arrived in Puno and had a mooch arround and bought some wooly hats as it was getting cold in the evenings. One of the shops had a baby lama in it. At first we thought it was a toy, but as it got up and pee´d in a pot we realised not only was it real but house trained too!!

We were picked up at 7:30 by "limo´s" which turned out to be bicycle powered taxi´s. They took us to a port on Lake Titicaca where we bought some goods before boarding a boat. The first stop was a floating reed island, which the inhabitants built themselves and move around according to the depth of the lake. We were then taken by hand made reed boat to another reed island before we were pick up by our normal boat. We were then taken to aother island - amantani where we were introduced to our local host family - a cute little lady called Philomena. We went with her to her home and were taken to our room. She cooked us lunch, then we met up with our fellow travellers. After a game of football (the locals v the rest of the world) - where Stuart scored the winning goal - we went for a hike up to the top of the mountain. We then had dinner, which we ate with the family in their little kitchen, and got ready for fiesta time. We were given costumes of the local dress and danced the night away to the sound of panpipes and drums!! It was really fun and everyone got well into it!

The next day we went to another island - Tequile - for another hike up the mountain. We arrived back in Puno in the afternoon and slept!! We then had a big night out at a really cool restaurant where we were entertained by a local band, playing exclusively for our gang. Stuart ate guinea pig which still had it´s head on and it´s eye balls in. Carly was digusted especially when you could see it's little feet sticking out!! We then partied the night away at the Rock Bar!!! Rock on!!!!

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Photos

Baa!!
Not your usual looking shop assistant!!!

Us and Philamena
Don´t laugh you´ll all be wearing next season!!

Disco Struts his stuff!!
Even the ladies on the remote islands of Titicaca aren´t safe!!!

Comments

[Dad]

Stuart, You Are A Tart
Once a tart always a tart. I have no idea where you get it from!

[Linda]

Catch up from Penang
Hello u 2, Good to see u r having such a fun time. Then again u 2 can have a good time almost anywhere! The photos and log r brill. As u probably know we are fine, back to Thailand Thursday and hopefully lots of sunshine. Hope u have a good Christmas and happy interesting New Year. Love Linda

[Jess Beasley]

Jealous!!!!!
Hi Carly and Stuart, Glad to hear you are having such a wonderful time, can't help being a little jealous though!!! Have fun in the jungle and Merry Christmas! Love from Jess and all the gang here. xx

[Bum]

Fond you
yoyo ratso and disco! ive been trying to find this damn blogger website thing for ages now... and finally my efforts have paid off! :) nice to see how you guys are doing and it seems like you are having a fab time, so rock on! you two have a very merry christmas and will check up on you later lots of love Bummy xxx