Puno sits on the shores of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, and straddles both Peru and Bolivia. Supposedly, "Titi" means puma whilst "caca" effectively means to go to the toilet and there is a saying around here that its "Titi" in Peru and "caca" in Bolivia. However, having been to both we can definitely say its the other way round. Puno is a bit of a hole, dirty and polluted no-one even goes near the water unless they are in a boat. img= http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v252/145/67/223401787/n223401787_6227208_1897.jpg center A big pile of ´caca´. Not to say we didn´t have a good time in Puno. We did a half day trip to the Uros Islands (the floating reed islands famous to the lake), which although interesting, can only really be described these days as floating souvenir
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