Another day, another airport. Officially our “tour” ends tomorrow, but the sightseeing finished yesterday. Today is designated as travelling to Lima and tomorrow the itinereary is ‘Depart Lima’. Check out of the hotel was 1100 so we slept till 1000, checked out and walked to the main street for breakfast before returning at 1230 [...]
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Random ImageTawny Frogmouth at Newnes |
We slept in until way after the sun came up (ie 0630) had breakfast and headed down the steep hill to our boat for the 1 hour trip to Taquile Island. Like all of the islands in the lake, Taquile is quite hilly. A long slog up hill followed by a longer traverse landed [...] Having seen the ‘local family’ in the jungle and the ‘local family’ on the reed islands, we were wondering what sort of accommodation the ‘local family’ on Amantani would provide. We were told there was no electricity, that although the sheets were clean the blankets were often dusty and a few other things that led [...] The Uros islands are man-made from the floating root clumps of reeds. Partions of these are tied together and eventually become a single mass. Successive layers of reeds are placed on top until it is a metre or so above the water. The island is anchored in place with ropes and houses are built on [...] |
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