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Lady on the Floating Islands
Blog: A Lady in London - 10 April 2012
I wasn’t feeling well when I arrived in Puno. Food poisoning rendered me useless when I got off the plane in Juliaca, which was the nearest airport to the Peruvian city on Lake Titicaca. But I was in Puno for one reason, and not even illness could stop me from seeing what I traveled all [...]
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Why Yes, You Can Rip Us Off in Front of Our Faces
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 14 May 2010
5/5/10: Puno, Peru We stood in front of the Desayuno (name changed to the Spanish word for “breakfast” because I can’t remember the real name) bus ticket counter, and an old lady approached. The following conversation took place in Spanish, but I’ll translate it here for those of you who aren’t masters of the Spanish [...]
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Touristy Uros
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 13 May 2010
5/4/10: Puno, Peru “It’s good, but it’s really touristy. It’s almost ridiculous how touristy it is.” “It’s definitely worth a visit, but it’s sooooo touristy.” Sometimes I don’t get what the bad thing is about going to a place that’s touristy. The Great Wall, the Grand Canyon, the Eiffel Tower – all crawling with tourists. [...]
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And Here They Come Down the Home Stretch!
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 12 May 2010
5/3/10: Puno, Peru It’s funny how life works. Three years of your life may revolve around one giant adventure (read: our round-the-world trip), but eventually it all has to end. I’m not saying our trip is over yet, because we do have nearly two months left. However, today marked a bit of a landmark for [...]
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Cusco, around Lake Titicaca, and on to La Paz, Bolivia
Blog: Trip Down - 29 April 2010
After Machu Picchu we returned to Cusco for a night. At the Norton’s (Rat) Pub on the plaza we met Micha, Igor who I met in Medellin and Chessi who I’d been riding with in Equador and Peru. On Saturday morning we left Cusco driving out through the bedraggled end of city and into the [...]
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The Uros Islands and Puno
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 29 April 2010
I feel like we're really motoring now. Back to similar speeds of travel we achieved through Mexico when we'd be moving every one to two days. We've a little over a month left meaning there is no time to laze around. So, after the delights of Cusco and the striped pants brigade, we took a bus to Puno for a taste of Lake Titicaca on the Peruvian side.
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Floating Reed Islands & Virgin of Candelaria
Blog: One Year+ of Vagabonding through Latin America - 9 February 2010
Carnival in Latin America is a not-to-be-missed experience. Last year I was in Barranquilla, Colombia – what they said is the second-largest Carnival celebration in the world (after Rio’s) and much less expensive and commercial. I had a fantastic time, and was naturally wondering where to go this year. Lo and behold, people around here [...]
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I did not know the Uros Islands were part of the Epcot Center
Blog: Documentariously Challenged - 28 October 2009
What a disaster in Arequipa. We had arranged a motorcycle tour for the Colca Canyon with what seemed like a very reputable operator, Felipe. We had setup to get the two 250cc bikes on Monday morning, but we were unable to contact him, so we pushed it back a day. Monday night [...]
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How touristy is too touristy?
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 9 October 2009
I make no claim to be the world’s most adventurous traveler. Most of my time in Latin America has been firmly on the gringo trail, and therefore it’s no surprise that most of the places I’ve been to have been pretty well discovered by tourism. And that’s fine – most places that are touristy are [...]
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Proxima para; Peru
Blog: Felicity Sees... - 5 October 2009
From one side of Lake Titicaca to the other, from Copacabana I crossed into Peru to the nothing-to-write-home-about town of Puno. Of more interest here than the town itself are the unique and unbelievable floating islands, still inhabitated by what looks to be the final generation of the Quecha speaking fisherman culture, now entirely reliant on tourism to survive.
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