Day 30, stopover in Puno

We woke up early, to check out and take the bus to Puno. The bus was very fancy, with seats that almost turned into beds, and screens with movies. We slept a bit first, because our night was short. After a while we woke up and saw that we were very high. The altitude app said 4273 meters! The landscape was really nice. There were no more trees and the glaciers were much closer. We saw many cows, sheep and huge herds of llamas. After 7 hours we arrived in Puno at 3818 meters. Nina's childs dream came true when she finally saw the titicaca lake! The funniest name in the Atlas 🤭 we stepped out of the bus and it smelled like farts 😅 we arrived at the hostel, left our bags and went out to eat something. For some reason everything was closed, but we found one restaurant that still served. We didn't know how it worked, so we ordered two plates of fish and some rice. We asked the guy if it was too much but he said it was ok. He even said rhe rice was for one person, but we decided to only take one plate. When he returned we got two plates of cold fish, soaking in lemon juice. It completely ruined the fish and it was not so nice. Then the rice came, but i don't know who could eat that plate alone. It was so much! The rice was nice, but the fish is on a shared first place of most disgusting food we ate, together with the disgusting lasagne in Pucallpa 😅 we went to walk around a bit to make the food go away quicker, and we stumbled on a huge parade. We walked in somewhere in the middle and couln't even see the front of the parade. It is the 1st of february, and marks the beginning of carnaval. For this specific parade, traditional dancers come from all over peru to dance in the parade. They all wear their own traditional clothing. There was also one group that had some people dressed as colonists? We don't know what it had to portray exactly, but Nina wants to try and find out. It was very interesting.
There were also children dressed as alpacas and grown people dressed as llamas. Many of the people in the parade were already quite drunk, and dancing was a bit hard for them 🤭 after an hour a really really dark cloud came in, so we decided to go to the hostel. There we watched a movie and went to sleep early, because we take a bus to Copacabana, Bolivia!Read more