Excursions

Shorter trips taken within my longer sojourns–sometimes guided, sometimes alone.

Islas! Islas!*

I decided to take a little tourist jaunt to the island of Amantani in Lake Titicaca. You can purchase a tour  from one of many agencies in Puno, but if you go to the pier in Puno and pay the captain directly for the trip and then pay your host family directly, the families receive more of the proceeds and don’t have to wait for the agency to send the money.

Estoy en Puno!

The south of Peru reminds me of some of the landscapes you see in the Southwest. Miles and miles of open desert country, with an occasional river running through.