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Ren and M's Excellent Adventure
Puno is located on the Outskirts of Lake Titicaca over 4,000 metres above sea level. The town itself is very basic but nice with friendly people and great boat trips over to the islands including Uros Islands were they are built on reeds and can be moved if they want!
We headed to Suasi Island from Puno and took a car all the way there....all 5 hours of the drive were on really bad roads where we encountered many a digger or truck trying to build a road...but the sites around the lake themselves were amazing. Suasi Island was a gastranomes dream.....wonderful food and service and wines...by this point wine had become something you do when you complain so I was delighted to sample some of the local good stuff!
We walked around the island and got to know the local Llamas, Alpacas and Vicunuos! The flower gardens were beatiful and it was an amazing retreat away from manic Peru! We also canoed around some off the island.
After a couple of VERY replaxing days the MD of the hotel chain Casa Andina was travelling back with us so he voluntered to drive us the 5 hours back to Puno......all was going well until just outside Juliaca (Peru's Birmingham) we broke down. Thankfully mobile phones had started to work 3 minutes beforehand and we got a taxi back to the safety of our hostel in Puno, Don Juan!
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