Day 12: Floating island and amantani island
The tour picked us up from our hostel and we joined about 14 other people for an adventure! We got on a boat and checked out the uros floating islands first! It's amazing! It's all these man made islands from totoro roots. The house is made of it, the floor, just everything! There's about 44 of these little man made islands. The island we were visiting had 5 families on it. We got to wear one of their traditional outfits and they had souvieniers to buy. Apparently that's how they make and spread money between the families, they look forward to the one tour boat that visits their island. (One tour boat per island and there's about 5ish boats)
Feels evergladish. Hah
A haha don't ask
Afterwards it was close to a 3 hour boat ride to the amantani island. 4000 people live on this island. The only way there is by boat. (These boats are pretty darn slow, hence it takes 3 hours. If it was a normal boat it would probably be 20-25
Minutes) part of our tour was that we were going to stay with a host family. There was about 8 ladies that welcomed us and we got paired off to stay with our host. Our host was Olga! Sweetest lady ever. It was supposed to be us learning and seeing how the "traditional life" was, I thought we were going to stay in a hut like we saw on the floating islands! But no, Olga had a decently nice place. The walls were intact and we had beds. We just had no running water. They said no electricity but have had a little, enough for them To run a light bulb into our room. No outlets or anything. Someone really ghetto rigged the electricity. Haha.She took us back and made us lunch. Mmm. Always wonders how they cool such good stuff with such minimal stuff.
Lunch time from Olga. Fried cheeeeese.
Afterwards we walked to the main square to meet our guide. He said we could see an awesome sunset if we hiked to the top of pachatata. Which was one of the twin peak mountains on the islands. So we hiked. But of course it was kinda cloudy and we couldn't see the awesome sunset he promised haha. All good still a beautiful view. Went back to Olga's house and she cooked us dinner! Mmm again!
Overlooking pachatata
Afterwards, it was fiesta time. We wore some of Olga's traditional clothes and met all the other tour boat people in a gymnasium like place and danced! Everyone was dressed up! So fun. So heavy! That skirt, omg I swear it was 20 lbs!
Us and Olga
Theresa dancing with her new homies
Then the fiesta was over and we went back home to sleep!
The next morning we woke up and Olga made us these awesome pancakes. Coffee, cocotea the usual. Then we walked down the boat dock and said our goodbyes!
An hour boat ride to the next island, taquile island. Personally, I think they should take this out of the tour. Haha. We get off the boat and we have to hike an hour up ! ( that was NOT stated in the tour!!!) we got the main square but there wasn't much there. Decent view but still. Then we hiked another 15 minutes to our lunch spot. Lunch was good (but not included, another reason why it shouldn't be part of this tour) then we had to hike "529" steps down. It was steep and it was way more than 529 steps down to the boat. Haha. Another 2:40 hr boat ride back to puno.
Back at puno, I had 2 missions. Eat guinea pig and Peruvian chicken. So we started walking and Theresa said we needed photocopies of our passport for our Bolivian visa and a passport photo. So we found a place to take our picture. They told us to go upstairs to their "photo booth" haha is ghetto. Got our pics taken and went on the hunt for guinea pig!
Thought we were gonna die in here.
According to tripadvisor the top two places were near by. One was very Americanized and expensive and the other was crowded and full of locals. We opted to go for locals route. Went in an ordered "cuy" . It was kind of skinny, tasted like duck so it was good but I think I started to think about it too long and I couldn't eat the last piece. Either way I was going to eat Peruvian chicken after! So cuy was good, now I can say I've tried the Peruvian delicacy. But Peruvian chicken, mmmmmmmm!!!!! So good. The sauce, even better. Stuffed ourselves silly with one restaurant right after the other! Went home and repacked for our bus ride to Bolivia tomorrow and called it a night!
Cuy cuy
Day 13: la pAz
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