Lake Titicaca

20th December Puno
We spent the day in Puno a bit tired.
There is quite a big market here with loads of interesting looking food. The town is always buisy and bustleing.
We got the night bus back.

19th December Taquile
We got picked up in the morning a dropped on the island of Taquile where we walked for a couple of hours before getting the boat back to Puno.

18th December Uros and Amantani
Today we got a boat out onto the lake (altitude 3820m). Not too far out there are a load of floading reed islands. We stopped to have a look around. These people moved out here to isolate themselves and are now a big tourist attraction.
The boat then continued on to the island of Amantani where we stayed the night with a local family. The people here are all where traditional clothes and often go around with a spinning where or knitting. Some seemed a bit wary of us gringos. We played sliding down a hill on plastic bottles with some of the local kids and took a walk to the top where there were some ruins.

17th December Puno
We got the bus down to Puno today.
The busses here can be quite entertaining in themselves.
There are always an endless procession of people to sell you food or sing a song looking for money or give a lengthy "shopping channel" style presentation of why you should buy their sweet or toothpaste. On this bus we bought a selection of the food which was quite tasty. At one stage a lady walked in with a large package wraped in a blanket. She propped it up on the my armrest and the one on the other side of the asile so that it was resting on my shoulder. She unwrapped it revealing it to be a cooked hot lamb. So out with the clever and she started hacking it to bits and selling with a few spuds to the pasangers. Mmmmmm, lamb.