After a 5 hours bus ride through the beautiful Andean high mountain landscapes - with nice blue lakes (this time with another more reliable company...), I arrived at the shores of the Titicaca lake, this lake that I already dreamt of as a child (at the time purely because I found the name very funny...) In the afternoon, I still made an excursion to Sillustani, an archeological site with burial towers, on the shore of a nice mountain lake.. even if there is not much left from these pre-Inka and Inka towers, the spot itself and its surroundings is just spectacular. On the ride back (I had to take a taxi as all the organised tours had already left and there is no bus goig there..) I accepted to take a peruvian lady and her 11 year old daughter along, which was quite funny, as she kept talking the hole hour we were driving.. I almost did not say anything and the taxidriver also had quite some difficulties of throwing in a word.. I have to admit that I did not understand everything she said as she had a very wird accent and did not speak very clearly.. ans, anyway, afer 15 minutes, I started to ignore what she was saying... For the rest, I aactually understand most people very well and do all my guided tours in Spanish.. that is quite a good exercise..
Tonight, I had a very nice simple dinner for 0,65 Euros.. incredible... it was a soup, a main dish with meat and a Mate de Coca tea... very tasty and a very interesting local atmosphere: people actually do not take any time to eat. They come in, eat (extremely quickly) and then leave immediately.. the whole thing is done for most of them in 15 minutes... worse than me on stressful day in the office.. After dinner I walked around and assisted to a fun party event: As the 28 July is the national day of Peru, the festivities have already started: Tonight it was a music event organised by the national police, with the band of the national polica (playing famous peruvian pop songs and the singer, a policement in uniform, almost made a show like Enrique Iglesias... WOW !!! And then, the highlight of the whole event: a demonstration of the canine section of the local police (for the non-anglophones: policemen with dogs...) At the same time people shot some fireworks. There was quite an "ambiance" there... And in the end, walking back, I even got a flyer inviting me for a free "Pisco Sour" in a Salsa bar, which I did not refuse.. fortunately, the Pisco Sour was excellent, but the salsa bar was crap: one salsa teacher and 20 Europeans trying to learn the salsa moves... and I can only say: they were absolute beginners and had no talent whatsoever...!! Therefore I had no choice but to leave immediately I had emptied my drink... ;-) Now, I need to go to bed, as tomorrow - yet again - I have to get up at 06h00 as I will discover the lake: the floating islands of Uros and another Island the name of which I have already forgotten (what a shame...) Tomorrow, I also hope to finally have time to add some pictures..
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