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We arrived at Copacabana next to Lake Titicaca with hopes of relaxing in the sunshine and visiting a few of the lake’s islands. Instead we got stuck there for three days while a bus strike in Peru prevented us from crossing the border and poor weather made the usually placid lake far from ideal to spend six hours on in a tiny boat. Fortunately we got a great hotel room and spent the time wisely surfing hundreds of cable TV channels.

With the bus strike eventually over we scrambled onto the first bus out to Peru along with the backlog of other travellers who were also stranded. The weather lifted along with the blockade and we eventually got onto Lake Titicaca from Peru’s end in Puno. We took a short boat ride out to visit the floating villages of Uros where people live on islands made entirely of reeds. Since the reeds need to be constantly replenished you have to watch your step in places or suffer a soggy foot.

From Puno we headed onto Cusco and spent a couple of days walking through the cobbled streets and plazas, enjoying some fantastic restuarants and arranged our next trips out to Machu Picchu and the Peruvian jungle.