Puno...

                  Originally, I wasn’t sure about Puno. Was it a must see? I´d heard it was nothing special. But then I figured how many times will I be on Lake Titicaca? I may as well go see the floating houses.
                 Outside of really cheap market food and a nice kind of walking area, I really shouldn’t have gone to Puno. This is where my hard drive and camera were taken and this is where Aoife and I got put on the WRONG tour. They picked us up early and then told us to follow this man on to this boat. They didn´t even check our receipt. Seeing as how things like this are common in Peru and Bolivia, I was questioned it but then thought okay.
                  We were supposed to see three different types of floating islands. We saw one, where we learned some of the history, ate the root of the reeds, went on a reed boat and looked a local artisan crafts. Then we went to the island of Taquille to eat lunch. It was honestly a glorified boat ride. The island did provide some good cultural information about the groups of people who lived there and why they wore certain types of hats, but again not really what we were expecting. We later came back to the hostel to have a man from the tour come and tell us to pay for our lunch. In the tour we were supposed to be on, lunch was included. It was all so ridiculous and at this point I was more concerned about my hard drive than anything so we made a consensus that it wasn´t our problem and left.