A day in Puno city, then a couple nights and the intervening day on one of the Uros floating islands in Lake Titikaka. The bus ride to Puno (on the 19th crosses the bordrr into Peru. You disembark, walk through Bolivia & then Peru border offices, reboard & off you go. Total elapsed - ~1 hour. Lots of 3-wheel taxis: Puno is a mid-size city: We met, had photos taken with one of the candidates in the upcoming presidential election: There’s a string of floating islands in the la

Bus to Copacabana, 3 days there. Notable: Ferry crossing on the way Market Isla del Sol Musical waiter Isla del Sol: Around town:  the Hotel Gloria, the bus pick-up spot, has a collection of National Geographics from the 1970’s, ‘80’s and ‘90’s (but not Nov ‘89): Had dinner @ a mexican restaurant. Good music on the tunes, i commented. Waiter said he played guitar, i asked if he performed around town. He offered to play, ended up with an hour-long set:

Four days in La Paz, at 12,000 feet the highest big city in the world. Our airbnb is in the Sopocachi district, on the 18th floor of an apartment tower. The Plaza Eduardo Abaroa, lots of activity, frequent organized events, is a block away: La Paz, population 2 million, is in a canyon: It’s expandsd up the walls, and to help people get up & down, there’s an extensive gondola aystem, the teleférico: Lots of cafes & restaurants in Sopocachi. One that turned out not to be grea

Did a 3-day tour of the Uyuni Salt Flats and Fauna Andina Eduardo Avaroa National Reserve, with guide Marcelo, driver Oscar and fellow travelers Akimi from Japan & James & Olivia from London. Many hours in a Toyota 4x4. Day 1 - Started at the Train Cemetary just outside Uyuni. Tracks were built by brits in the 1880’s & replaced by amerixans in the 1920’s. In the ‘50s they stopped being used and were left to rust: Next, the salt flats: Spent the night in a ‘salt hotel’ made en