After Colca, the next adventure was to travel north to Puno, where you stay when visiting Lake Titicaca. Here, I met up with Liz! We went to the floating islands of the Uros, stepped on their land/reeds, and dressed in their typical clothes! We ran into Rachel, Aine, and Hugh! We had a great time! Unfortunately, I cannot SHOW you any of this because I lost/was robbed of my camera after I returned to Arequipa. And I didn't download the Liz meetup/Puno pictures onto my laptop before that happened. How flashpacker* of me!
Meetup with Liz was great! After spending 7 hours on a bus from Arequipa, I was happy just to stand up. (Un)fortunately we got there at the same time. Liz’s bus should have arrived two hours earlier than mine, but her bus made stops because it kept breaking down. The funny thing, is that when it came into Puno, I bet they kept using it, sending it on to the next destination.
I will give more Puno highlights soon!
*On the way to Lima, I read in Lan-Peru's bilingual, in-flight magazine about a new breed in the evolution of the backpacker. While backpacking implies independent, budget travel, the flashpacker is a bit more money-flexible, isn’t quite so dorm-room/shared bathroom/internet cafe but rather, laptop-toting/picture down-loading/wi-fi signal searching/private room/even boutique hotel.
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