Day 10 + 11 cusco to puno

Day 10 

This day was spent being spent. Recovering from the Machu Picchu trek. Nothing to wake up for, no tours, no alarms, no nothing! Slept in and just returned our bags and got some food to eat and I did some last minute errands for the rest of the trip. Dinner was great, we were too lazy to go down those steps again so half way on the steps there was a restaurant for sandwiches!

Chicharron sandwich!

Day 11

Cusco to puno

We signed up for a bus /bus tour from cusco, Peru to puno, Peru. Puno is the city next to lake titicaca. The bus ride was at 7am and full of tourist. Saw 3 Japanese  people, 4 Chinese ladies from San fransisco, a Chinese couple from Toronto, 3 Americans, some French and other Europeans. I like to meet people. Haha.

$55 usd for a 10 hour bus ride/tour from cusco city to puno. If you don't care for the tour portion, there's more of a direct bus for cheaper. 

Our first stop was a beautiful church, and our 2nd stop was another church. Another stop was a temple ruins. The lunch stop was the best, all you can eat lunch. Omg! So goooooood!!! Best thing to me, fried quinoa. Haha I miss fried foods. 

After lunch we started bussing uphill and we stopped at the highest point of our route. 4600m beautiful snow capped mountains and a pretty blue sky.After lunch we stopped near the mountains for a quick photo session. We had 8 minutes to get off the bus and back on. It was a town which was at 4,335m above sea level. (14,222.44 ft) pretty darn high. The air was thin, everyone starts asking to drink cocotea for the altitude

By the time we got to puno it was 5  pm on the dot. Got a taxi and checked into our hostel. Lucky your house. Only 6 rooms haha. Decent, not as lovely as the one we had in cusco. The outlets were ghetto and really there only one working outlet. Picture explains it all. 

Ghetto rig

We went out to check out the town of puno. 2 blocks down, Theresa was like something smells good!! And it led us to a street vendor cooking up meat and potatoes. 3 sols. Soooo freaking good. 

Meat and potatoes

We walked around the "main square " area. Very touristy, more expensive and nothing that terribly great. We went our usual route. Walk down the little side streets, and go into a place that has a lot of locals eating. (You know it's cheap and good if that's the case)

Called it a night after that because we had an early morning tour.