Next trip
After saying goodbye to the treking group, I spent the next day in Cuzco trying to figure out what to do next. I decided to head south to Lake Titicaca and Bolivia. One of the treking group, Catherine is heading that direction as well so we book our tour together.The bus left at 10 that night for Puno, Peru. The bus was packed with locals and as the bus makes stops through the night it becomes even more full. At about 2 Am we stopped at what appeared to be a barn party and picked up the band. The bus is so packed now that the band is forced to sleep in the aisles.
After a very long 10 ride we arrive in Puno, and meet our tour planner Oscar. He is a very nice man who seems to be connected with everyone. Oscar never seems to have things completely finished but is somehow able to get everything worked out at the last second. After just a couple of hours in Puno, we board a boat on Lake Titicaca.
The Lake is very polluted near the city, but once you get farther it becomes very beautiful.
Our first stop is the floating reed islands. Peruvians fled wars on the main land hundreds of years ago and build reed island on the lake. The islands are quite large. They have schools, hospitals, restaurants, and most importantly solar powered satelite TV. We take a tour around the islands on a large reed boat and continue on to our next stop, Isla Amantani.
The ride to Amantani is about 4 hours. When we get to the island we are each assigned to a family that is going to house and feed us for the next two days.
After saying goodbye to the treking group, I spent the next day in Cuzco trying to figure out what to do next. I decided to head south to Lake Titicaca and Bolivia. One of the treking group, Catherine is heading that direction as well so we book our tour together.The bus left at 10 that night for Puno, Peru. The bus was packed with locals and as the bus makes stops through the night it becomes even more full. At about 2 Am we stopped at what appeared to be a barn party and picked up the band. The bus is so packed now that the band is forced to sleep in the aisles.
After a very long 10 ride we arrive in Puno, and meet our tour planner Oscar. He is a very nice man who seems to be connected with everyone. Oscar never seems to have things completely finished but is somehow able to get everything worked out at the last second. After just a couple of hours in Puno, we board a boat on Lake Titicaca.
The Lake is very polluted near the city, but once you get farther it becomes very beautiful.
Our first stop is the floating reed islands. Peruvians fled wars on the main land hundreds of years ago and build reed island on the lake. The islands are quite large. They have schools, hospitals, restaurants, and most importantly solar powered satelite TV. We take a tour around the islands on a large reed boat and continue on to our next stop, Isla Amantani.
The ride to Amantani is about 4 hours. When we get to the island we are each assigned to a family that is going to house and feed us for the next two days.
posted by Terrell at 12:19 PM
2 Comments:
That's really cool that you will be staying in homes with the locals. Are you going to come back speaking fluent Spanish?
Thanks for all the updates. Is there a height wieght limit to get on these reed islands. Might want to check on that. The US can't take anymore bad press right now. I don't know if you are aware of this but my home is also shaped like a seated Llama.
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