We had decided to to take a half day tour to the Uros Islands instead of a full day tour of Lake Titicaca. The primary reason was the later pick up time and being able to have a leisurely breakfast. We were picked up just before 9am and taken by taxi to the harbour. Our guide for the morning, Erwin, was local to the area and spoke good Spanish and English as well as being a native speaker of Aymara, the language spoken on Uros Islands. He had perhaps been doing...

After a rushed breakfast, we asked reception to call us a taxi to take us to the bus station. Admittedly, we were running a bit late and when they said it would take 10 minutes for the taxi, we decided to take our chances on the street. Fortunately, we managed to get a 'taxi' on the street within minutes and we were hot-tailing through the back streets to the bus station. At the bus station we joined the queue at the San Luis booth to check-in. A lady came up, ...

Our alarm was set for 4am but there was a banging at 3am which woke us. Whether it was a donkey kicking the door, a dog running into it or maybe fruit dropped out a tree onto the roof, we'll never know and we won't get the sleep back either.Paul and the chef had been busy in the kitchen and breakfast was served as promised at 4:15am - pancakes, bananas & dulce de leche washed down with mugs of coca tea.It was still dark at 5am and we could see a line of light...