Now almost completely out of clean clothes and craving the simple things in life – wireless, a working kitchen etc – we tapped up the Thorn Tree for some recommendations to change our hotel. As usual it came through and we relocated to a gringo-friendly place near the centre of the Candelmas action – as I type this we can hear bands, singing and fireworks and it’s set to continue for the next few days. We spent the afternoon getting to know Puno while there was a lull in proceedings, and wandered down to the shores of lake Titicaca where we saw pink flamingos and oxen wading through swampland to get at the fresh grass.
It’s nice to be with friendly gringos and to have a conversation in English, and we chatted to a guy from Melbourne who has been living in an obscure Chinese town in Szechuan province for the past 9 years, and had picked up some of the Chinese way of phrasing things. Tomorrow we’re hoping to do a tour of the floating reed islands on Lake Titicaca before we head for the Bolivian border; now it’s time to chill a bit and update our friends and family on where we are.
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