Puno

Puno itself isn't very interesting or attractive and at an altitude of 3,827 meters it is cold at night, in fact I´ve pretty much lived in my fleece for 4 days! Puno is also Peru's folklore center - we weren´t disappointed, every day we saw some sort of parade or Fiesta!

Whilst staying in Puno we visited Juli and Chucuito. We went to Juli on Sunday for the market, not much to write home about but did see a dried lama foetus which was interesting! Juli has four colonial churches and is therefore know as `Little Rome'.

Chucuito reminded me of a little French town and when we got there another Fiesta was in full swing, we think someone had just got married or maybe they were having a party cause it was Sunday?! The journey back to Puno was crazy with Tim and I being squashed into a little van with a load of locals for 30 mins. I was literally sitting on a withered old man who must have been about 90!


The first parade that we saw after arriving about 30 mins before. yes, that is a man in a silly mask dancing infront of a big brass band!

Just after a wedding the locals sit down for a rest after throwing 5 tons of confetti at each other!

A tiny little village off Puno, we rock up to the main square only to be confronted by a dancing congo procession after a wedding.