Remember the lady who met us at the bus station (touting) - well she met us at the hotel yesterday morning to escort us to the port for our day trip on Lake Titikaka ... once again travelling in the boot. She's arranged our bus tickets for today, so she will meet us this morning for our trip to the bus station and will most likely travel in to boot again ... along with our growing luggage - can't be comfortable.
BUT ... the boat trip she organised for us yesterday turned up a real find. Jeff (the alpaca breeder) has been trying to find out about a particular alpaca place between Puno and Cusco (won't even try to spell it) ... and whilst talking to our guide for the day ... who had to say everything twice ... in Spanish and English.. we discovered she comes from a small (very small village) with the same name. Amazing - we had searched the internet for info ... but nothing.
We got talking with her about her village ... which she only visits once a year - in December and January during the rainy season so she can help her family on the farm. To get there she travels part way by bus and then she has to take a donkey or a llama the rest of the way.
She and Jeff also talked about alpacas ... it seems the shear their alpacas by hand ...not with shears but using tin from sardine tins. Life is certainly different over here.
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