Cold, wet but fun Lake Titicaca homestay

After leaving Cusco on the 1st, we headed to Puno the main port on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca. It was absolutely freezing, even when the sun was out and our hotel room only had one measly heater!

We were told to expect limosines to the port for our Lake Titicaca trip, but we weren¨t quite expecting these!

It certainly cheered up our early start though!

After reaching our boat we set off for the Uros islands, all made entirely of reeds from the Lake. It was very springy to walk on! We got shown a little demo on how they actually make the islands, and got to try on some of their clothes! We topped of the visit with a ride on one of the reed boats, which was very relaxing.

We then had a ridiculously long boast ride to Amantani island where we were having our homestay (I will bever not bring a book with me again!). When we arrived it had started raining and it was very cold. We met our homestay family, had a HUUUGE lunch with far too many carbs and met up at the main square for a very much needed hot chocolate.

We then returned back to our houses for more food, and a change of clothes, we were very happy about this because it meant we could wear more layers!! We then headed to the village hall for a bit of ´dancing´, basically just running round madly in circles...

We said bye to our families early the next day, then we visited another island for a great lunch of trout from the lake. We then had a long journey back to Puno for our last night in Peru.