Blogs from Taquile Island, Lake Titicaca , Puno, Peru, South America - page 3

November 1-3, 2009 - Puno & Lake Titicaca, Peru After a decent night´s sleep, we are all thrown into Taxi Chollos (small three wheeled, peddle powered taxis) which take us to the port of Puno where we will board a boat to take us out on to this massive lake and head for Taquile Island, about three hours away. The scenery is amazing here so there are plenty of photos to see (when I get a chance to upload them) and being on a boat is far better and much more relaxing than our previous days on buses travelling over bumpy roads. At 3,900 metres above sea level, Lake Titicaca is the world´s largest navigable lake and over the many centuries since it was formed, has changed from a saltwater lake, to a fresh water one ... read more

Anyone who has ever traveled with an infamous "buddy pass" before knows all about the uncertainty tied with this type of traveling, which often times leads to frustration... The sweet sight of a smiling gate agent who hands you a boarding pass at the last minute is one of life's greatest relief! Though I certainly can't complain, having had the opportunity to travel the world with such perks, my "buddy pass experience" in Lima has not been so fortunate. To give you some boring, yet unfortunately important background, Delta only has one flight out of Lima to the States (Atlanta) per day. Moreover, as luck would have it, July is the busiest month to travel in and out of Peru, which means that flights are packed every day. To make matters worse, South American flights have ... read more

16th February The minibus arrived at 06.45 am to take us to the docks where we would board a boat for the day trip on Lake Titicaca. The boat this time was impressivley comfortable with coach seats and an upper viewing deck. But again the boat was pretty slow however we had a tour guide to keep us occupied. The first stop after 1 1/2 hours sailing was the Uros floating islands. The boat docked and we were allowed to walk around these ingenious creations. The islands are built up with layers upon layers of thick reeds which grow on the shore of the lake, the whole island is floating and ancored to the bottom with long stakes. The Uros people live their whole lives from the islands fishing, hunting ducks, replenishing the reeds on the ... read more

So today (31/12/08) we finally get a lie in an still we wake up dead early as well we are just so used to it now.........hee hee!!! Well its News Years Eve but a tad too early for a beer so we have a briefing at about 1ish so we get all our laundry sorted as after the Inca Trail I am not too sure that anything is clean hee hee and we are off to Puno on New years Day so time to get it all sorted!!! went for a wander into town did a few odds and sods and made sure you all got an email (soz if you were missed but have a belated Happy New Year!!) saving on the text messages, which I have to say I am doing surprisingly well at ... read more

Back to Quito now and a final meal and drink with the guy’s and gal’s from the trip to the Galapagos Islands and my first ever Mojito, not bad. Three of us are travelling together to the Inca trail and Machupicchu, Gary and Vickey. They both live in Sittingbourne, just along the road from me, so we have a lot in common to talk about. We, the three Amigo’s, got up early to catch a 7.15 flight only to find it had been cancelled. They put us on the next flight at 18.15. Our theory is that they only had enough passengers for one flight, so they cancelled the first one. Back to our hotel and the receptionist asked hat had happened an he gave us our rooms back and let us have breakfast, result. The ... read more