Several butts to Bolivia
August 8th 2006 From chilly Puno (great deal on steaming mugs of mulled wine for 25 pence a go) on lake Titicaca (contrary to my geography lessons not quite the highest navigable lake in the world) we visited the island of Taquile. On boarding the boat we noticed - you could hardly fail to - that most of the men looked like a cross between camp waiters and pirates: dressed in white puff-sleaved shirts, black wais
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