From Cusco to Puno is a wonderful ride on the “Andean Explorer”. It travels through the Andes then onto the Altiplano, the highest plateau in Peru, and ends at Lake Titicaca in the lakeside community of Puno. The trip takes a full day, 10 hours, so we get to Puno at 6:00 and got settled into our hotel at 7:00 before a slow walk around the main street area. Puno is the ultimate test for altitude sickness as it is 12, 500 ASL. We have been taking the pills, (half the dose recommended), for two days and probably will stop tomorrow as it is all downhill from here, (La Pas is 600 ft lower), but it all depends, no sense trying to be a hero and wreck what is left of our vacation. Altitude sickness, once it sets in, can be very bothersome.

So tomorrow we got to the floating Islands of Lake Titicaca…should be very interesting!