Puno - fluffy beds and kayaking

So we treated ourselves to a lovely lakeside hotel, with crisp clean feather duvets and pillows, a massive breakfast buffet and chilled out for a whole day!


We found a wonderful restaurant "colours" for some less authentic, but amazingly delicious western food and enjoyed having enough WiFi to face time Fran, Mary and bear :)


Our second rest day, was less star fishing in two separate double beds, and more get the guns out and kayak as fast as our little oxygenless hearts could carry us. It was simply stunning. We took a tour with Edgar travel, were picked up from our hotel at 7am, taken along with about 20 other people by boat (with relaxing leather seats) to a peninsula. Looking around we were uncertain we'd got the right boat and transfer, very few people looked willing (or able) to do anything remotely sporty, but our fears were soon relieved when we realised only 6 of us were kayakers, we'd get dropped off before taquille island and kayak the rest of the way, while the others travelled there in style.
That we did, and how absolutely beautiful and peaceful it was to kayak in the middle of lake Titicaca (have to say it carefully as titi means puma and caca if pronounced wrong means poo!!). It was absolutely stunning and despite listening to our tired arms, we made it there in (apparently) record time! Wahoo (competitive us... never!).
The afternoon was much more relaxed, eating traditional Peruvian lunch (that we know to be slightly less authentic and more luxurious than they made out!), and the high point, visiting the floating reed island communities. Fascinating to see how the islands are made and take a jaunt on a reed boat.
Happy but knackered we got back to our feather beds and ordered room service (cheeky!) to fuel up ready for tomorrow's cycle and start of our journey to Bolivia.
(we even watched 2 films on cable in English in bed whilst eating... Pure heaven... What a treat!).