Puno Stories


Puno and more islands in Lake Titicaca

Having safely crossed the border to Peru (we have escaped the mandatory 8 year jail sentence for drug trafficking so far!) we stayed the night in Puno (and had alpaca for dinner!) before heading off on a 2 day trip to various islands in Lake Titicaca. First we arrived at Isla Uros, a collection of about 40 floating islands, manmade by the inhabitant...


Puno

30 July, Puno, Ariquepa An early morning start began with a pickup from Highland tours to take me to the bus station. From Cusco to Puno is about six hours but it seems that all tourist buses take this 10 hours route that stops at six different interesting places. It is now time to have time for myself. As soon as I climbed the double decker bus, ail...


Highest Lake in the world

We made it to Puno, staying at the Casa Andina private Collection.The hotel was nice, we booked our boat trip once in to go out on Lake Titicaca and to the floating islands of Uros meeting the people that lived on them and everything is made of reeds ie houses, boats.I bought an anthentic authority hat there and got to touch a condor.We then went on to ...


Higher and Higher

If you sing that song from the ghostbusters movie, that is what is going through my mind right now. We are in Puno on the border of Lake Titticacca and are at approximately 12,000 feet elevation. the sun is blazing and it is so damn cold! Unfortunately we had to do a load of wash from the canyon trek and all our warm clothes are at the Lavandaria. ......