Lago Titicaca

After a really relax time in Arequipa we went to Puno to see the Titicaca lake. There we did of course a tour on the lake to see the floating islands. It's a very nice boat trip and aside the fact of the high rate of tourism (the family on the island even have song a Japanese song for us...) but it's very nice for the photo-album!! The islands (there are aprox. 25 of them) are completely made of cane, it's a sourch of food and building material. They make boats, houses, souvenirs of it












The boattrip continued to a fixed island called Island Taquile, a beautiful example of Pacha Mama. Just a nice little fact, the inhabints wear there hads just the way of there emotion of that period of about 3 hours. And not the mention if they are single or married which is give away in the size of the pompons on the clothing.










People on these islands are living of tourism for a big part of their life. Also the little children for instance ask about one nuevo soles for a picture. So I played a little bit the dumb tourist when one of these kids asked if I wanted a picture. She did not understand it but took it anyway.










After the trip the next day we went to Cusco/Cuszo. It is not neccesary to bring food on these trips because on the way people are always selling food. Things like pan con queso, choclo con queso, choclitos, or drinks and ice cream. Always for one soles (0.25 euro).













Trips also tend to be very interesting during election time. This trip included a strike half way and we did not have to pay more, amazing!! The stones on the road are from a big monument on a hill next to the road... silly Peruvians.