Another Border Crossing to Puno, Peru

Peruvian taxi's

Yavari, the oldest boat on Lake Titicaca. It was constructed in England and shipped in pieces around Cape Horn (the southern tip of South America) to the port of Arica (Chile), then transported to Puno part by train and hauled over the Andes by mules. It took 6 years to arrive. It was ordered by the Peruvian navy to protect their territory on the lake, but it was never used defensively because the guns for the boat never arrived with the shipment. It was built in England in 1864 and launched in Puno in 1870. The navy used it primarily for transporting people and goods. In the 1940s, it was used as a tanker for transporting petroleum, until it was left to rust on the shores of Lake Titicaca. Recently it has been restored and now takes people out for private tours on Lake Titicaca…..muy caro!

June 1-June 2

We took another 3 hour bus ride from Copacabana crossing another border into Peru with the final destination to Puno. By this point everyone on the bus were tourists. When crossing the border the bus stops on one the Bolivian side, lets everyone out, you walk across, check in, and get back on the bus on the other side. Puno is a port typically used as a stopping point on the Gringo Trail for tourists to get to the many islands of Lake Titicaca from Peru as opposed to Bolivia. It was our stopping point on the way to Machu Picchu.