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Published: October 21st 2006
Arrived in Puno on
Friday 13th...unlucky for some....so unlucky for me as it goes....Someone up there is testing my patient and I am about to break!!
Not really impressed with Puno, the town/city doesn't stand out, the people are nice but tbh I cant wait to get out of here, we are travelling with Brian (Tip) and Marie (Cork) who we met on the Inca Trek and we have takin a 2 day one night tour to the Uros Islands on Lake Titicaca to see how they live...it´s pretty cool actually these people live on Lake Titicaca on the reeds...they have made their whole life from the reeds,built houses, restaurants, schools, on them etc..when we went by boat to visit they have little reed restaurants...even a floating church!!
That evening we went to the actual Island and stayed with a local family, see pics below.....we didn't have hardly any interaction with them as we had no Spanish, our rooms were nice and we stayed in out houses to theirs, the houses are made of mud bricks, pretty cool, they gave us lunch and dinner, all vegetarian so we thought that must be ok to eat, that night they
dressed us up in their native dress....sooo sexy!! and we went to the local disco where we were asked out to dance by all the locals...very interesting...
Next day we left for another Island but I wasn´t feeling well and stayed on the boat, and by the time we got back to the hotel I was burning up with a fever and shaking with the cold, vomiting, Dihorea!! etc etc..the doctor came out and couldn´t really tell me what was wrong so gave me an injection.. as he said into the leg which was really my glutes, and if you have ever had an injection into the glutes then you will know what Im talking about, it had me rolling on the bed in spasm for 10 minutes, this was apparently to stop the fever which it did but the next day I was still very sick, I couldn´t keep the antibiotics and other meds down so nothing seemed to be woring. Also had to move rooms as we were in a room with out a bathroom!!! Thoughts of me being on the way out where crossing my mind!
(NO exaggeration!!!) Had to call the doctor
again...as I was still vomiting along with everything else... he gave me another injection which was intravenos which sent me floating around the room for a few hours what ever it was, but it seemed to work, so I suffered for 4 days with some kind of bacteria that was in the food that the family gave us and we stupidly ate (even to look at them we should have went with our gut instinct and starved...) since then I´ve made a full recovery & brought myself up to budget as I hadn't eaten in days and blood tests came back ok.....Ive heard loads of stories of people coming off the Island being very sick and really the LP should have a caution on it or a tip to bring your own food!!
Next stop La Paz Bolivia....
More pictures of puno-click on slide show
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Charlie
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
Hi girls, the comment title refers to LSD hallucinogenic drug which sounds like what you got injected with! ha ha. Anyway, Titicaca sounds wonderful! maybe you had malaria? Love your outfits. Ye look like Mother Teresa! x Charlie