From Colca Canyon to Puno

Colca Cañon - Puno (link, enlace, lien)

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So hop we go, not too early though 7am. Last view over the Mitsi volcano and a first stop at Chivay market. A real one not for tourists!

Half way to Puno we change transportation and guide. A special thanks to our guide Patricia who has been a fantastic guide and Edgar our chauffeur who drives very well.

Two hours later we stopped for a picnic at 4000 meters above sea level. The soroche (altitude sickness) still strikes us a little.

Two more hours and we reached the archeological site of Sillustani, 20 kms from Puno, it 4:30pm, light is already getting low. Sillustani is a pre-Incan burial ground on the shores of Lake Umayo near Puno in Peru. The tombs, which are built above ground in tower-like structures called chullpas, are the vestiges of the Colla people, Aymara who were conquered by the Inca in the 15th century. The structures housed the remains of complete family groups, although they were probably limited to nobility. Many of the tombs have been dynamited by grave robbers, while others were left unfinished.

Just outside the archeological site we stopped to visit a house where local people live.

We arrived at Puno around 7pm and of course it was night already. An 11 hours on the road well worth it.

Colca Cañon - Puno (link, enlace, lien)