Puno & Lake Titicaca, Peru

We spent a couple more days in La Paz after Pampas before crossing into Peru via land border at Desaguadero. The total journey time from La Paz to Puno was a 7 hours. The border formalities, best described as chaos, took close to 3 hours to complete.
Puno, on the shores of Lake Titicaca was a pleasant surprise for us and we settled into Peru life easily.


Stamped out of Bolivia, walking across the bridge into Peru. More border chaos was just around the corner :-)


Lung busting walk above Puno. These stairs went on for ever.


At last we reached the Condor on the hill above Puno at 4017m.a.s.l.


Lake Titicaca.....some building materials arriving!


Damp under foot here on the floating islands??


Getting the touristy stories from the locals :-)


Couldn't resist a view!


Suvi's new best friend....the kitten!


Floating island life! Suvi with Georgina.


Cruisin!


Calm scenes on the lake! This was to change soon enough :-)


On Isla Taquile, Titicaca.


A few local kids on the island....


.....nothing has changed here for years.....


....it was voting day on the island so everyone was out wearing thier best dress!


Lunch time entertainment, Quechua style.


Island scenes.


Suvi at the dock awaiting the return boat.


The calm conditions did not last.....


....eyeing the approaching storm.


Wall cloud approaching from the boat....get the sick bags!


Were outta here....leaving Puno amoungst the ducks and chickens.