Lake Titicaca and Sillustani
We stayed in Puno on the shore of Lake Titicaca for a few days after we left Bolivia. We found this part of Peru to be even cheaper than Bolivia. Interesting new things include guinea pig on the menu...
Lake Titicaca should actually have been called Lake Titicala ("Puma rock"), but a transliteration error to Spanish resulted in the last part of the name being as it is with a similar meaning to that word in Afrikaans!
We visited some pre-Inca and Inca ruins called Sillustani which was used as ancient burial grounds. Whole family groups were buried in these mysterious burial towers with treasure and food. Amazing to see how perfectly these stones (weighing several tons) fitted each other. The first use of this site dates back to 2000BC.
Culture shock: We noted that we have hardly seen any cell phone usage in our travels thus far - there are many cell phone call vendors, however, who stand in market centers and offer you the use of their cell phone which is chained to themselves. Cell rates in Peru are exorbitant (as far as we could make out in our less than perfect spanish).
Lake Titicaca should actually have been called Lake Titicala ("Puma rock"), but a transliteration error to Spanish resulted in the last part of the name being as it is with a similar meaning to that word in Afrikaans!
We visited some pre-Inca and Inca ruins called Sillustani which was used as ancient burial grounds. Whole family groups were buried in these mysterious burial towers with treasure and food. Amazing to see how perfectly these stones (weighing several tons) fitted each other. The first use of this site dates back to 2000BC.
Culture shock: We noted that we have hardly seen any cell phone usage in our travels thus far - there are many cell phone call vendors, however, who stand in market centers and offer you the use of their cell phone which is chained to themselves. Cell rates in Peru are exorbitant (as far as we could make out in our less than perfect spanish).
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