Tuesday:
Had a great send-off from the wharf, with most of our kids wearing their peruvian woolen hats. On the way back we visited the Uros islands, the famous floating reed islands, for a short visit. We stopped at one small village and were given a bit of a history of the Uros people - they moved to the islands to evade the Spaniards.รงรง
Everything is made of reeds, the house, the boats and the islands. They even eat the stem of the reed, which is very much like celery. Bought a few trinkets and then headed back to Puno.
In Puno, we visited the local food markets to get some supplies for our bus trip tomorrow as well as the local black market. The boys were all quite interested in the way people shopped and the fact that you can choose your live chicken or guinea pig to take home for dinner. A couple actually had guinea pig for lunch today. Several of us had Alpaca with a peach sauce which was just great.
We let the boys go out in the tourist part of town for dinner tonight and a little souvenir shopping no doubt. Everything is very safe and the boys are bigger than just about everyone on the street. The rest of us had a nice quiet dinner with no bothersome teenagers.
That's all for now, time to hit the sack for a 6:00 am wakeup call.
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