On Friday 30th May (jumping back in time…) we spent ten hours on a bus to Lake Titicaca. We spent the night in Puno, at a very very nice hotel, where we had our first HOT showers since Australia and relaxed in the luxurious baths, which are unheard of in Urubamba.
On the Saturday, we went on the boat to the floating island where we met the locals and learned about how on earth they make the islands! It’s crazy, they are living on island which are about 50m across and are constructed by using the reeds which grow on the lake. Every few months they put on a new layer of reeds as the previous hundreds of layers slowly sink to the bottom.
We kept going, stopping at Isla Amantani (higher altitude that Cusco) where we stayed with a local family for the night. This was interesting considering the local language was Quecha, not Spanish. We fell in love with our family’s three little girls even though we could hardly communicate with them. Before dinner we walked to the top of the island to watch the sunset- beautiful but the walk almost killed us. Then after lunch our families dressed us up in their traditional dress and we gringos went and danced with the locals. Lots of fun, although exhausting again due to the altitude.
In the morning we said goodbye to our new family and spent the day on the lake exploring other islands. We went back to our luxurious hotels for another hot shower or two before our ten hour overnight bus ride back to Cusco. Yay for long buses…..
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