Mainly a travelling day today as we finally say goodbye to Bolivia and head into Peru on our overpriced bus tickets! The border crossing at Desaguadero was very busy and made worse on the Peruvian side with exits and entries in the same queue, and only three people working on passport control as busloads of people travelling in opposite directions all hit customs at the same time. Our bus then inexplicably stayed parked in the middle of the street for another half an hour or so after our passports had been stamped!
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| Queuing at the border with all the other gringos |
Puno is known as a convenient stop between La Paz and Cusco on the shores of Lake Titicaca (the world's highest navigable body of water), and has the floating islands of Uros as one of its main attractions. We had been warned that the whole thing was very touristy, but of course we are tourists on the tourist trail through South America (also known as the Gringo Trail).
We had booked train tickets from Puno to Cusco on the Andean Explorer, feted as one of the great train journeys of the world (and priced accordingly of course). We went to the train station just up the road from our hostal to collect our tickets before walking down to the harbour to try and work out our options for visiting Uros for tomorrow. It was more touristy than we'd seen for a while, with touts trying to get us to book boat trips for the next day, but that also meant it was obvious there was no need for us to commit to anything now .... the touts will all be there tomorrow as well!
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| The clear blue waters of Lake Titicaca |
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