Amantani/Puno

We got a 6am wake up call from our mama, which is around about the time we have been getting up anyway. My bed had a pit in the middle anyway, and so I hadn't slept well.

We got pancakes with jam for breakfast, and some tea which is good for altitude and stomachache, and has a minty taste.  We didn't really have time for anything else, and so set off for the harbour.

We arrived first, and had to wait 20 minutes or so for everyone else to turn up, but the sun was shining and the sea (edit: i mean lake!) was nice to look out at. We got on our boat and travelled back to Puno, which was pretty uneventful.

We had a couple of hours down time, and after my shower I had a bit of an unpleasant surprise: my 3ds had been stolen from out of my main luggage, which had been left at the hotel. It isn't the end of the world, but it's pretty annoying, I'm just glad I didn't leave anything really important in there. Katie, Slade and I went out for lunch, where I had Kingfish, which was very nice.

In the afternoon we took a bus to Silustani (also the name of our hotel) which was a burial site for the leaders of the long extinct kechua (not sure on the spelling) people. The normal people would be buried in the earth, or thrown into the lake, but the leaders would have towers built in order to get them closer to heaven.

On the way back to Puno we stopped at a local farm, where they showed us some ingredients and farming techniques. We got another hour and a half or so at the hotel, before going out for tea, where I had alpaca rolled around mushrooms. All the food here is so nice!

Towers at Silustani