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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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Natural Wonders of Peru: From Forests to Canyons
Blog: WildJunket - 20 January 2012
This is a sponsored guest post by Virgin Holidays. Peru is home to the famed monuments of Machu Picchu and to the vibrant capital city of Lima.
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Snapshots: 秘魯 Peru
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 3 June 2010
Woman from Colca Canyon and her hand made doll Woman peering out of a stone house in the Sacred Valley Charlotte and her red balloon Traditional handicrafts in Cuzco Floating reed islands of Lake Titicaca Plaza de Armas, Cuzco Arched walkway in Cuzco Cuzco bathed in morning light More Snapshots...
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The Uros Islands – Lake Titicaca And Those Reed Boats
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 1 May 2010
I’m sorry, but I just have to repeat this story. It’s genius. So I’m on Skype to my folks, my Dad asks where I’m heading next and I half-mutter “Lake Titicaca”, having not yet worked out how to say that without sounding like a muppet. “Oh, nice!” Dad says, and for a split second I [...]
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第八十天：還在秘魯...
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 1 May 2010
用蘆葦搭成的島嶼、房子和小船 或許馬丘比丘實在太震撼，激動過後，她的餘暉在我們心坎中久久未能散去。對於新的事物，如的的喀喀湖，我們並非刻意充耳不聞的，只是實在心不在焉；是這個湖不吸引那些蘆葦島不夠留著我們的注意力嗎？ 朋友們，若你計劃遊秘魯，請把馬丘比丘安排到最後，不然你可能會像我們一樣懷著幽幽的心情去看別的東西，總是唯唯諾諾、若有所失的。 由於秘魯和玻利維亞間的邊界這兩天有罷工，我們不幸地要"滯留"在秘魯之的的喀喀湖三天；而過境後在玻國那邊的湖區又留兩晚... 最惱人就是這些控制不到的事！還有我的心情 -- 在秘魯已 16 天了，最扣人心弦的馬丘比丘、好吃的 ceviche、刺激的 sand-boarding 都見證過試過做過了，我在最愛的哥倫比亞也沒逗留這麼久呀！加上我們在南美的時日無多 (只剩下不夠兩個月，如果往英國的機票改不了的話)，我真的有點著急呀！
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Day 80: Stuck in Puno!
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 1 May 2010
Floating Islands of the Uros people - everything built from reeds! Buses aren't running today because the road to Bolivia is blocked by a strike. We have no option but to stay another night and leave tomorrow instead. Not a bummer because I have a lot of admin stuff to catch up on anyway (tax returns from a past life!! Shit!). We visited the floating islands of the Uros people yesterday. I
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Juli – Visiting The Villages On Lake Titicaca
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 30 April 2010
As I may have mentioned, apart from going out to see the islands on Lake Titicaca that are nearest Puno, there’s not a huge amount to do in town. Which leaves you with the option of, well, leaving town. There are several villages along the shores of the big lake, and one of them is [...]
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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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Day 78: Quite literally a pain in the ass...
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 29 April 2010
Views from bus window as we cruised through the landscape... On the road to the world's largest high altitude lake - Titicaca. We decided to take the 7 hour journey during the day than roughing it at night, had enough nights on buses for now. Woke up with a vicious zit on my ass. Great, not the ideal thing to have when you're about to sit for the whole day. I squirmed around in my seat to find
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Puno and the islands of Lake Titicaca
Blog: Cogs Watch - 5 January 2010
After the dazzling Arequipa we jumped on a bus and headed to Puno. Puno is perched on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca, the highest lake in the world sitting at about 3,830m above sea level. Luckily we’re well adjusted to the altitude since arriving in Cusco so it doesn’t bother us anymore.
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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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