Saturday, January 31, 2009

Taquile, island of the knitting men

On Taquile our guide Eddy definately was in his best form as a kindergarden teacher and we felt like on a school trip. He explained us the origin of the name "Titicaca" - Titi Kharka - Rock Puma - and kept on saying that the lake was "Titi" in Peru and "Caca" in Bolivia ;-) And his passion definately was the local traditional costume - telling us a least ten times how to tell from a man's bobble hat if he was "marriage" or "single" ;-)
After lunch we went back to Puno... the lake calm we enjoyed the sunshine and blue sky from the deck! Our little group agreed to meet later that night for a couple of drinks on the Plaza de Armas and Ryan and Susanne went to buy the bus ticket to join me on my trip to Copacana for the Fiesta of the Virgin de la Candelaria!

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