PUNO - on the shores of Lake Titicaca
5pm arrive in PUNO from CUSCO by First Class bus, transfer to PUNO INN HOSTAL. (which I totally have no recollection ).
PUNO - Largest city of Puno Region & Province in SouthEastern Peru.
Located at the edge of Lake Titicaca, world's highest commercially navigable lake at 3,860masl. A 4hr boat ride across is Copacabana, Bolivia.
PUNO is also important agricultural and livestock region of Peru particularly of the South American "CAMELIDS" ie Llamas, Alpaca & Vicunia...which graze on their immense plateaus and plains..PUNO is named the "Capital folklorica del Peru " from its wealth of artistic and cultural expressions in particular, dances.
..."The Mamba Sisters" to wow the crowd on their first LIVE PERFORMANCE in GENTING HIGHLANDS, KL. - WITH GUEST APPEARANCE "THE ALIEN"..Textile arts practised for thousands of years by men & women on the Island of Taquile in the middle of Lake Titicaca. Inca tradition has it that Manco Capac, the 1st Inca, rose from the waters of Lake Titicaca under the orders of the SUN GOD, to start the Inca Empire which would be centered in the neighbouring region and city of CUSCO.
Marvel at the magnificent greenish blue colors of the lake will give you a new perspective of this region and the body of water that played such a key role in its history....
FLOATING REED ISLANDS OF UROS...
Lake Titicaca has 41 floating reed islands..
TAQUILE ISLAND
a walk from the jetty, round the island of Taquile
Cantua buxifolia (or Cantuta or Quantuta) - National flower of Peru, found on this island...
- 3hr boat ride fr Puno.
- Fascinating time capsule of wonderfully preserved Peruvian and Bolivian cultures...
SILLUSTANI BURIAL TOWERS
"Ms Sherlock Holmes visits Sillustani sacred burial grounds..hope to solve mystery of missing skull..." Tita (standing extreme left) of PNN reporting live...
Ancient people (pre Inca) from the Antiplano, who lived on the shores of mystical Lake Titicaca, built a series of funeral towers to bury their Kings and important people.
This Sillustani Towers are perhaps the finest and most perfect cylindrical construction of the Ancient Peru.
"...and this is Penang KOMTAR in year 3030... this is PNN, Tita reporting live from Penang Island.."
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