Lake Titicaca and Puno

The night was very cold, probably close to freezing so getting out of our warm sleeping bags was hard. On top of that, there was no running water to even brush our teeth. We had breakfast in Ines’s kitchen again --- a roll, a local pancake (made of corn and some other things) with jam and coffee. We barely had enough time to gather our things and climb down the rocky path back to the boat. It took about 45 minutes to get to the island of Taquila. We climbed for about an hour to get to the town. The views were beautiful. In town, we visited the local artesania cooperative, had lunch of fresh local trout and took a different, much steeper route to a harbor on the other side of the island, got on the boat for the 3-hour ride back to Puno. Then, a visit to the local market, Puno cathedral and back to the hotel.. Everybody was exhausted after two days on the lake. Tomorrow we are leaving for Cuzco…