Blogs from Puno, Peru, South America - page 83

Zdravime vsechny Brzo rano, po nasi obvykle snidani (rohlik, maslo, marmelada, dzus, kava-caj) jsme odjeli autobusem smer Copacabana.Pro priblizeni, mistni linky jsou delane pro obcany do vysky 170 cm max., tak o pohodlnem sezeni nemuze byt rec.Taky jsou plne obstojne zapachajicich domorodcu a okna se samovolne otviraji (nekde udelali soudruzy z Bolivie asi chybu:-)) Po 3 hodinach jizdy a 10 minutach plavby (proste zapomeli udelat most, tak funguje prevoz:-)))) jsme uspesne dorazili do mestecka Copacabana (54.300 obyvatel, 3800 m.n.m.) Nase cesta po 2 hodinach pokracovala dale, pres hranice do mesta Puno.Kolem 14h. jsme opustili Bolivii. V autobuse se nas ujal mistni dealer a sehnal nam taxi, ubytovani v Pune (3820 m.n.m.) a podvecerni vylet na plovouci ostrovy Islas Flotantes.Vylet byl kouzelny, na ostrovech zije mistni kmen Uros.Lide kmene jsou zvlastni malym vzrustem, chuzi jako ... read more

Well it finally happened - we got stuff nicked by some dastardly Peruvians. Nothing much of value was taken, and we still have all our photographs stored (don't worry,we've made sure we can still take pictures etc by way of a cheap digi camera) so it doesn't really matter that much, but it's annoying that it happened. It was about 6.45am, and we were trying to catch a bus that was trying very hard to avoid us. We had booked it with a lady who had said it would pick us up from our hotel, which it didn't. We then had to go and find a non-specific location on a road, which we didn't manage to. We sat down to get our bearings, and at some point someone made off with one of our day-bags. We ... read more

Well La Paz was great and everything, a little high but it was okay, great shopping and cheap as chips! But Itchy feet caught up with us so we packed up our things and got on a bus and ended up in Puno, Peru!! But our last few days in La Paz were very adventurous indeed.... Tiwanaku We finally gave in and decided to join a tour group, you know those annoying groups of people in North Face coats, bags, hats, gloves, underpants, who wear safari hats in the middle of the city, well we were one of those! But it was worth it, we had an English speaking guide who pointed things out to us which we would never have noticed otherwise, such as the fact the statues had their noses cut off because the ... read more

After a wonderful nights rest at Wary Naywa Hotel in Puno, we woke up at 5:00 AM ... again, to catch a collectivo over to Juliaca (Puno suburb) for the airport. The drive was ok, except for the fact the person beside me felt the need to open her window... we froze for the entire 45 minute trip. When we arrived at the airport we heard rumors of a bombing in London from some people who had caught the morning news before they left their hotel room. The TV in the airport seemed to running a re-run of yesterday evening news. The rumors were beginning to spread, UK residence began frantically making calls. Everyone at the gate seating area was eagerly waiting for a news flash update. Before that ever occurred an airport security personnel ... read more

Yesterday evening I discovered that our hotel in Puno (Wary Naywa) had a pool and steam room. Being so tired, I put an alarm on my watch to prevent my self from falling asleep in the steam room, last thing I wanted was to turn into a lobster. The next morning we woke up bright and early to catch a collectivo down to the docks were we began our two day trip to the Islands of Amantani and Taquile. On the way we stopped off to visit the Uros floating Islands people. These folks some how figured it was better to build floating Islands from water reads than to live on real ground. About 1000 inhabitants occupy 32 or so of these floating Islands. The eat fish, reeds ... and that's about it. Alessandra took ... read more