ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Day 11-12, Titicaca and travelling to Cusco</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <span class="textbg">Day 11-12, Titicaca and travelling to Cusco (25 images)</span><br> <span class="textsm"></span> <p class="desc"><p><span class="textreg">Click a picture to see a larger view.</span><br> <span class="textreg"><br><br> <a href="../Day%2013-16,%20Cusco%20and%20Machu%20Picchu,%20Peru/index.html">Go to next index page: Day 13-16, Cusco and Machu Picchu, Peru</a> <br><br></span> <hr size="1"> <a href="target0.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1035.jpg" width="154" height="91" title="440. With bus from La Paz to the Titicaca lake." border="0"></a> <a href="target1.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1042.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="442. Wiev from the Titicaca lake. We sailed with a ferry from the town Chua to Isla de la Sol - took about 3 hours." border="0"></a> <a href="target2.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1053.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="445. View from the Titicaca lake." border="0"></a> <a href="target3.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1066.jpg" width="154" height="85" title="447. Isla de la Sol. One of the more important and holy places of the Incas." border="0"></a> <a href="target4.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1072.jpg" width="105" height="154" title="448. Walking up to the top of the hill. It is in a way still a holy place, and many of the tourists were people from La Paz and the area around." border="0"></a> <a href="target5.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1074.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="451a. View over a garden. Older than the incas (the terraces are flatter and wider than typical inca terraces), but maintained by them. Today it's a collection of the many domesticated plants of the area." border="0"></a> <a href="target6.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/boliviaperu_2008_121.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="452. A shaman holding a small ceremony of blessing." border="0"></a> <a href="target7.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/boliviaperu_2008_135.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="455. Alpacas. When long-haired like this, it's amazing how much they look like a strange kind of sheep. The one to the right is a llama." border="0"></a> <a href="target8.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/boliviaperu_2008_147.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="457. A boat build from reeds. This one is terribly touristy, though." border="0"></a> <a href="target9.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1096.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="459. The town of Copacabana. Many people from the area gather here for the Easter festival for a short holiday to be together, to have fun and to go church." border="0"></a> <a href="target10.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1097.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="460. They decorate their cars with flowers. The small, red flower that can be seen in rows over the car bonnets is the national flower of Peru." border="0"></a> <a href="target11.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1105.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="462. Leaving Bolivia." border="0"></a> <a href="target12.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1158.jpg" width="154" height="92" title="470. We stayed the night in a place called Puno and continued to Cusco by bus the next morning. This is from of the towns we passed through. They're well known for their tricycle style  mini-cabs ." border="0"></a> <a href="target13.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1150.jpg" width="154" height="100" title="469. They also had an interesting market place, but unfortunately we could only make a very short stop." border="0"></a> <a href="target14.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/boliviaperu_2008_158.jpg" width="154" height="108" title="472. More from the market." border="0"></a> <a href="target15.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/boliviaperu_2008_164.jpg" width="111" height="154" title="474. A stop in Pucara. I think we were supposed to see a museum. with old stones and stuff. The church was more interesting. There was a mass while we where there - and a most interesting alter with glowing lights, blinking in time with the sermon." border="0"></a> <a href="target16.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/boliviaperu_2008_165.jpg" width="154" height="81" title="475. And were just in time to see a procession to the church." border="0"></a> <a href="target17.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1171.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="Video: Procession in Pucara." border="0"></a> <a href="target18.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1169.jpg" width="154" height="116" title="482. The church in Pucara." border="0"></a> <a href="target19.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1202.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="484. Stopping by the road by a herd of alpacas - and meeting a little boy." border="0"></a> <a href="target20.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1208.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="486. And then a stop at a tourist market. The little girl is dressed in the traditional type of clothing that the Quechua speaking people wear. I'm not very fond of tourist things like this, but I like this photo because she isn't posing - she's busy counting the money she gets from people taking photos of her." border="0"></a> <a href="target21.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1218.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="488. The temple of Viracocha at Raqchi, a complex of Inca ruins. The worship of a god called Viracocha was important to the Incas, and was carried out here - and the god was quite possibly linked to the Inca himself as well. This place was one of the most important temple complexes in the Incas' time." border="0"></a> <a href="target22.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1229.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="490. Ruins at Raqchi. The round structures in foreground are the bases of pillars. There's a reconstructed one in the background." border="0"></a> <a href="target23.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1233.jpg" width="154" height="118" title="491. A series of storehouses. There were many such ones spread around the Inca's empire (the Tawantinsuyu). Like with the Roman empire, the Inca empire protected it's subjects and fed them, in return for tribute and the worship of its leader - the Inca - as a god." border="0"></a> <a href="target24.html"><img align="center" src="thumbnails/imgp1242.jpg" width="154" height="105" title="493. Picture from the bus. The landscape is now clearly much greener than around La Paz and futher south." border="0"></a> <map name="Map"> <area shape="rect" coords="95,1,129,44" href="frameset.htm"> </map> </body> </html>