Lake Titicaca

On Friday, I took a bus from La Paz to Puno, Peru.  Emilie, in the mean time, was flying there. We ended up getting to the hotel about 20 minutes apart so everything worked out perfectly. 

Puno is the Peruvian gateway to Lake Titicaca.  Outside the city center, it is a pretty rough town, but pretty none the less.  I did this fun run at 5 am up to this big condor statue overlooking the whole town.  It had over 1000 steps to get up there. 

Emilie and I spent the rest of Saturday on a cruise on the lake.  We visited the Islas de Uros which are a group of man made floating reed islands.  They were interesting but it was obvious that the only reason why people still lived out there was to get money from tourists. 



Reed Island

Walking on the floating reed island

We then continued on to the island of Taquile.  I had never heard of it, but found out it is a unesco world heritage site.  It has a Mediterranean feel to it with stone paths, terraces, and great views of the giant lake.  The people have some unique culture and textiles. It was unexpectedly fun and beautiful. 



This morning Em and I flew to Cuzco, which is an amazing town.  Tomorrow we go to the sacred valley and the day after that I am running the whole Inca Trail in a day.