This is a wonderful lagoon complete with a flock of flamingoes that we passed on the bus trip from Arequipa to Puno. We were really lucky - we were seated at the front row on the second floor of a panoramic-view double decker bus, so we had wonderful views of mountains, lagoons, lakes...
This is the wondefully reflective Lake Titicaca seen from the nice new waterfront esplanade at Puno. This photo really makes the lake look much smaller than it is though!
You get a slightly better idea of the lake´s size if you climb one of the nearby hills in Puno. But the section of lake you can see behind me is less than a twentieth of the whole!
At the same mirador (viewpoint) there was a small tower with a giant Condor on top. You could climb the tower - you can see Gary looking diminutive beneath the Condor´s claws!
This is Uros - fifty or so reed-based man-made floating islands are all anchored here, huts, fish farms, and all. What a weird way to live.
These are the beautiful Inca style terraces that adorn the slopes of Isla Taquile. The lake was a particularly nice shade of blue during our visit and the sky (as always at high altitude) was astoundingly clear - meaning the air felt particularly thin when climbing all the steps to get up to the terraces!
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