So, we have had to go a bit off route due to time and also trying to work things around our Inca Trail booking. Travelling all the way to Puno (very close to the Bolivian boarder) to travel back to Cusco for the Inca Trail and then back this way again. Not being able to get the Inca dates we wanted has been a bit of a pain but we have made things work, couldn't miss out Punos Lake Titicaca.

We travelled 12 hours on a bus to Arequipa and then from there a further 6 hours to Puno, it was tough going but we made it.

Both shattered we went straight to the hostel to face plant the bed and more than likely stay there for days, if time was no issue this would have happened.

We did not expect much of Puno as sources didn't have much good to say about it, probably because it doesn't have a clutch of magnificent Spanish colonial Catholic Churches or a bunch of museums or fabulous squares. We were, however, pleasantly surprised on our initial walkabout.

Puno is a small port city at an altitude of 3822 meters (12,565 feet) above sea level. It sits on the banks of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world

Most of the inhabitants are from the Andes mountains and the city claims a unique mixture of modernity and tradition with many women dressed in the traditional, very colourful Andean clothing living and working next to their modern counterparts.

We were in with a bit of luck as we had arrived in Puno for their annual celebration of the city. We arrived to the hostel curious as to why everywhere was so abandoned and quiet. The helpful owner said it was a day of remembrance before tomorrow's celebrations. There's was barely a sole in sight fore they were all paying respects in the cemeteries.

I tiredly signed us up for a 9am start tour to see Lake Titicaca and the Uros floating Island, with only two days here and the night to rest we must see the lake after coming this far.