Big, Blue, Beautiful....and Burnt to a Crisp! At 4:30 this morning, eight of us fumbled back into the volunteer house and flopped into bed after a long, but fantastic journey to Lake Titicaca. The adventure started at 6:30 on Thursday morning, when we were picked up from the house and taken to the "First Class" bus terminal. For the next ten hours, we were students to ourb friendly, yet annoying tour guide. In transit to Puno, we stopped several times to visit various, extremely touristy, sights. Our first stop was a Cathedral which had a mish-mash of Inca and Spanish decor. Next, we visited the tallest Inca temple, surrounded by what used to be an Incan community. At that sight there were over one hundred and sixty store houses, and the Incans would trek to
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