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Published: September 26th 2009
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uros islands
man made floating islands made from totora plants We´re almost at the end of our trip in Peru. Last stop: Puno/Lake Titicaca. (Lake Titicaca is one of the highest inland lake in the world). We booked the Lake Titicaca tour at the hostel and walked around the city. They were selling bread (pan) everywhere on the streets! We weren´t too fond of trying plain bread but we gave in and I must say... it was the most delicious bread I´ve ever had. Thinking about it now makes me hungry for bread.
We went on a 2 day tour which we visited Los Uros Islands and Amantani. We stayed overnight on Amantani Island however they don´t have any hostels there. So the way it works is you are assigned to a family and you stay with them and experience their lifestyle. We had bought them cookies and crackers as a gift for them the night before we left so we decided to buy some snacks for ourselves just in case. We decided to be adventurous and try chicharon chips. I opened the bag and already knew it was a mistake. It was like fried pig skin or something. Needless to say, we didn´t like them.
Our homestay mom,
Ines, was very kind and her son, who said his name was ocho, was fun and adorable. Ines cooked us 3 meals consisting of kinnua soup, potatoes, yuka, rice and bread... basic but delicious. Note: Lydia is obsessed with kinnua soup so she was quite happy. Our room was warm, so we were satisfied. The only weird thing was that the light in our room was quite dim ' to the point where we had to use flashlights. Probably a good thing though - we´re not looking our best these days. A French Canadian couple stayed with us too and their Spanish was a lot better so we pretty much communicated with the family through them. We visited Pachatata on Amantani Island and watched the sunset... it was a place of worship in the Pre inca times. It was quite a sight and it gave us a beautiful view of Lake Titicaca. The walk up was quite tiring though... even for the super hermanas. haha. That night, Ines took us to a party the locals host for the foreigners. They dress us up in their clothing, listen to their traditional music and dance. It was fun yet very different. Amusing
traditional clothing
all dressed up and ready to dance! because the guitar player was drunk off his rocker... his singing turned into yelling, he took a few naps while playing and we think he was drooling.
The next day, we departed to Taquile Island and spent a few hours there. We were able to see Bolivia through a few clouds as we walked to the top of the island. We had lunch at the top and walked down on the other side of the island which faces Peru. Very nice view. Unfortunately, a few people from our group misunderstood the guide and we ended up having to wait an hour for them before we could go back to Puno. We weren´t too happy about that.
After arriving back at Puno, we booked our bus tickets with Colectur, shopped around, and went to eat at a Chifa (chinese food). It was nice to have a variety of vegetables in our meal again.
- Myra
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