the titicaca lake...cooool

after times of parties come the time of being quite. so i went straight away from trujillo to the titicaca lake setted at 4000m above sea level. it took me 2 nights and 2 days to arrive there. my first stop on the lake was puno, which is i think the biggest city by the lake. i spent there 4 days, before going to llachon, small village empty of gringos. i went as well to chucuito, where there is an inca park of the fertility, with sculptures of penises. i just spent like 2 weeks around the lake in some little places, and went to a little island where i slept with local people, went to work with them to feed their cows, ate their tipically meal made of potatoes corn and fish, and a kind of tortilla made of carots and onions. very good. the weather there is cold at nite, raining in the mornings and sunny and hot in the afternoons. the same everyday.

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from there i thought to go directly to bolivia but there were no immigration office on the island, so i had to go back on my way to pass the border by the main way. there i had the bad surprise to pay 10euros (not a lot but the equivalent of 4 nights in a hostel) cos the drunk policemen from the border with ecuador gave me a visa of 30 days instead of a normal and free 90 days visa.and i satyed in peru finally more than 30 days, 33 days exactly. anyway, it s part of the travel. i had as well the pleasure to try hitch hiking in peru, and my most funny lift was a truck full of 25 cows, so there were no other possibilities than to be above them in the truck. travelling like that gave me a feeling of freedom, the view wea all around and not only one side of the road from behind the window of the bus.

now i m in la paz in bolivia, but it s gonna be for

the next time. conclusion: peru is a very beatiful country, for the parts i saw, and the people are very nice as well. so it worth going there, and not specially for the machu pichu that i didnt see by the way.

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[Dadou]

coucou,
ca fait toujours plaisir de voir des photos aussi belles......et moi pendant ce temps la je m'enferme dans ma prison des Baumettes
Biz a toi vieux loup
David