Blogs from Puno, Peru, South America - page 17

Day 19:- Spent a large proportion of the day travelling to Puno (in a rather uncomfortable minibus). There wasn´t much going on here to be honest, perhaps as it was a Sunday? We sampled a “curry” for tea - it wasn´t. Day 20:- We began the day by getting a tuk tuk down to the port. At which point we boarded a boat to take us to Taquile Island on Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is immense and very beautiful. On Taquile Island we met the locals who performed traditional dances in the main square in the village. From the Island you could see the snow-topped mountains of both Peru and Bolivia. After (a rather tasty) lunch we caught the boat to a peninsula off the mainland where we were to stay the night… with a local ... read more

After a night bus from Cusco, we arrived in Puno very early in the morning around 4:30am. We hung out at the bus station for about 15 minutes, just enough time to catch a tout offering a tour of the floating islands and a "friend" who has a hostel. We hopped in a cab and were off to the hostel. After about an hour nap, we were up and ready to head to the floating island tour! We headed down to the docks at Lake Titicaca - the largest lake in South America and at 3800m altitude, the highest commercially navigable lake in the world. Hopped on a boat and off we went to Uros Islands. The Uros Islands are a bunch of man made islands constructed of reeds. Everything on the islands were constructed of ... read more

Nice bus trip to Puno and visiting of Puno (not very special...).... read more

Geo: -15.6693, -69.7117Estos últimos dos días han sido en el aislamiento. El domingo a primera hora partí hacia las islas de lago titikaka primero las islas flotantes de los uros, una comunidad que en la actualidad vive en el lago titikaka sobre islas flotantes que ellos construyen hechas de totora, originalmente en tiempos antiguos esta era una tribu que vivía en tierra pero por los conflictos con los incas y otros pueblos deciden construir sus casas sobre las balsas de totora y luego construir estas islas de totora sobre el lago. Básicamente las construyen con las raíces de la totora y luego con la misma totora que van poniendo sobre ella en capas, hay una foto que aparece un habitante explicándolo. Estas se agrupan en varias comunidades de las cuales varias están abiertas al turismo, todas ... read more

Have just rested down after an overly large lunch which wasn´t entirely planed! We found a tiny little restaurant which was packed full of locals so obviously went insisde. We paid for the ´menu´ which was S6 each (about 1 pound 50) and sat down to wait. 5 courses arrived! Surprisingly good food for such an absolute bargain...think that the post-prandial slump is going to be timed perfectly with getting on the bus to Arequipa - sleep time! We went to visit the floating islands on Lake Titicaca this morning which were really beautiful - brightly clad locals on floating reed islands. Little disconcerting bouncy feeling on walking on them, but really impressive quite how ingenious they have been with the reeds (they´re even edible when fresh!). We took a boat ride on a reed gondala ... read more