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Dangerous Dave's Daring Deeds
Hola amigos - photos uploaded! After a fairly uneventful bus journey to Puno on the Peruvian shore of Lake Titicaca, Farida, Martyn, Sally and I stayed in a hostel with "24 hour hot water" and what we assumed would also be 24 hour electricity. Oh no. Not so. The mucho assured hot water was more like 3 seconds/day (of which we saw none in any case), and the lights in our room worked for about as long as they didn't. Never mind, after some ferocious arguing by the Fridaymaestro, we got a few Peruvian Neuvos Soles back and departed this morning for Copacabana - a stretch on the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca, after which the more famous Brazilian area is named. Oh, almost forgot what we did in Puno! An amazing trip out to some of the floating islands on Lake Titicaca - los Uros - including a trip between two of them in a handmade reed boat (rather disappointed but kind of relieved to learn that there were 400 plastic bottles concealed beneath the reeds - this one only took 4 days to make, unlike the originals that were more like 4 months). The islands themselves are made of reeds, with the tops being constantly replenished as they rot away - a strange feeling to walk along the spongy surface, but well worth it, and some of the photos, as you will hopefully soon see, are fantastic. Anywho, so we've come now to Copacabana, and have just finished a fantastic lunch that came to 281 Bolivianos between the four of us. That's just under 20 pounds for four delicious two course meals - fresh trout and kingfish cooked in various styles, followed by pancakes and ice cream, and three bottles of a pretty tasty Bolivan white. What can I say? Life is good. Plus the sun came out during the meal, it having rained during most of the journey from Puno to the Bolivian border, so we're all in much higher spirits than last night! And I think we'll soon be off to consume some spirits too, before organising our trip to see the Incan islands closer to these shores - the Sun and Moon islands. You'll all be happy to know that, having left the majority of my bracelets at home, I now possess 8, plus three necklaces. One from every town I reckon. And then a few beads to tie off the ends of my dreads....hahahaha. Hope you're all well, thanks for checking up on me! Much love, Daveeeed.
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