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PUNO,
PERU ...Y
l left Cusco and headed south to Puno on Lake Titicaca. You
go to Puno to see the floating
islands of the Uros Indians. The last time I was there,
there were no other tourists. People stared at me on the street.
But, I found my way around easily. The town was so tiny that
it wasn't hard. I hired a triciclo, a tricycle taxi that
really was peddled by someone, for the long ride along the edge of
the water to the port. It cost twenty-five cents.
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That
was then and this is now. Just like everything else, time marched on. Puno was a sprawling, bustling, crowded city and Peru's second biggest tourist attraction. If you traveled there in style, which I didn't, you took the $200 luxury train from Cusco to Puno. Otherwise, you take the bus like me. |
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I was shocked by Puno's size. Those charming little tricolos were still in Puno, but many of them had been replaced by motorized, three-wheeled taxis. And, there were so many tourists, souvenirs, internet cafes and crowds. The bus terminal was hopping in Puno and it was easy to make a connection on to Copacabana, Bolivia, if you want to go on to see the Island of the Sun and the Island of the Moon. Which, of course, I did. |
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2012 by Phillip Martin All rights reserved.
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