22nd and 23rd April - Puno, Lake Titicaca and the Uros Floating Islands
On the morning of Monday 22nd April we caught a bus up to Puno on the shores of Lake Titicaca. We left at 8.00am and did not get there till 3.00pm - the journey seemed to go on forever. We got a taxi to our hostel and chilled out there for a couple of hours before taking a look round Puno. Puno is a fairly scruffy town although I did notice some new designer university buildings on the outskirts. The town was thriving in Spanish times with a population of 10,000 due to its silver mine. It was very much a frontier town and very violent - so much so that the Spanish authorities executed the two brothers Gaspar and Jose Salcedo, who owned the mine. We walked down through the town to the lakeside which was all fairly new. Rickshaw ride Outside the Plaza de Armas and Catedral The Catedral (1657) Inside the Catedral An odd church Vendors Sign in the ladies' banos We were lucky to catch the moon over the water when we g...