Lake Titicaca Trip

For our last big trip, we decided to go to Lake Titicaca (please. no giggling.). Apparently it's the highest navigable lake in the world. Whatever that means.

So on Thursday night we left at about 9:30 and got on a bus and rode for six hours through the night. It was actually pretty decent, it was a double-decker bus with super comfy seats and I actually got some sleep! HOORAH! We got to our hotel in Puno at like 4 in the morning and got a couple hours of sleep before leaving again at 7. We headed down to the docks and got on our boat and rode out to the Uros islands, which are man-made floating islands. They were actually pretty cool...if you could get over the nagging thought that you might fall through the layers of weeds into the lake. Then we headed to another island (I forgot the name) where we met our host families, had lunch, and hiked up to some ruins at the top of the island where we watched the sunset and learned about the people on the island. After coming back down, we had dinner and then they had a fiesta with dancing and music and such. We didn't stay for too long though cause we were tired and cold. Yes I know. We're party poopers. Deal with it. But we stayed the night on the island with the family, so that counts for something.

In the mornin, we headed over to the neighboring island, Taquille, where we hiked to the main plaza and learned how to tell if people were single or married depending on the clothes they're wearing, which was interesting enough. We looked around the plaza for a while, had lunch, and then started the 3 hour boat ride back to Puno. And I got sunburned. (Lake T is even higher in altitude than Cuzco, so the sun is closer. This also means it's extremely cold when the sun goes down and it's harder to breathe. Two of my favorite things. Yay.) Anywho, we're chilling in Puno now waiting to get on a bus back to Cuzco. One day left...