Le 29/09/11, 15:13
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Another trip in bus (this time just 6 hours, daylight, and beautfil volcanic landscapes) to go Puno on the Titicaca bank.
It's probably the ugliest town I've ever seen! almost 90% of the houses (which are actually pretty big, like 3 or 4 floors) are unfinished and not even painted, so the whole town looks like a big construction site or a big township...
Luckily, there are many incredible places to see nearby on the lake...like the Capachica peninsula.
I've been there with Eva and Jordi (the catalans I met in colca), and Brice, a french guy I knew in Cusco, and whom I randomly met again in Puno.
We slept at a small hostal, built by a local quechua farmer an his wife, it was wonderful and so "authentic", we visited the villages nearby, semmed so far from the civilization, and the view from the lake and the islands were just amazing.
We even visited a small Uros island, made of reed. There are like 50 island near Puno which are now real tourist traps, but the one we saw was very far and people still "live" there, we can hardly understand how and why they stay on this sites...but they simply told us that they had nowhere else to go.
After Machu Picchu, I thought that it would we hard to find some place as interesting or exciting, but happily I was so wrong, because I think I really prefered seing these spots on the lake.
It's probably the ugliest town I've ever seen! almost 90% of the houses (which are actually pretty big, like 3 or 4 floors) are unfinished and not even painted, so the whole town looks like a big construction site or a big township...
Luckily, there are many incredible places to see nearby on the lake...like the Capachica peninsula.
I've been there with Eva and Jordi (the catalans I met in colca), and Brice, a french guy I knew in Cusco, and whom I randomly met again in Puno.
We slept at a small hostal, built by a local quechua farmer an his wife, it was wonderful and so "authentic", we visited the villages nearby, semmed so far from the civilization, and the view from the lake and the islands were just amazing.
We even visited a small Uros island, made of reed. There are like 50 island near Puno which are now real tourist traps, but the one we saw was very far and people still "live" there, we can hardly understand how and why they stay on this sites...but they simply told us that they had nowhere else to go.
After Machu Picchu, I thought that it would we hard to find some place as interesting or exciting, but happily I was so wrong, because I think I really prefered seing these spots on the lake.
