My 5 month adventure!: Puno + Lake Titicaca, Peru

On the bus to Puno we got stuck in a traffic jam for 2 hours because of a teachers strike. They had blocked the road and some buses had been stuck there since early in the morning. Some trucks even tried to get round it by driving across the river and got stuck. Unfortunately this meant we didn’t have much of the day left when we arrived in Puno.

Puno wasn’t a very interesting town but we were there to do a tour of the floating islands. Luke, an Australian guy we met on the trek, met us in Puno the next morning and we bought a boat ticket to Isla Los Uros, one group of the floating islands. The local boats have to wait for 10 people before they leave so we had to sit around for awhile before we could leave. The floating islands are made out of reeds and the locals showed us how they are made. It is amazing what a basic life these people lead and how much they now rely on tourism. It was a bit of a tourist trap as they tried to sell us their handicrafts and then we had to pay for a trip on one of their reed boats to one of the other islands in the area. It was really interesting though!

We then just had a bit of a lazy night because we were all really tired.