Steaming out of Puno

Now that´s a floater!

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December 19th 2006
Puno, on the western shore of Lake Titicaca was a busy, dirty city with little to offer and no obvious beauty to show. However, as the place to get to the Islands of Titicaca, it wasn´t too shabby. We started the day early, and got aboard the boat and headed on out to sea so to speak...there was a Naval museum there, though we never did find out what they were doing there... We landed on ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more