#23 Taquile Island / Puno #3

Another picture of this woman's beautiful cape. We are leaving Amantani
Island.  You can see the boat we were riding on docked a the left. 

The next island we visited was Taquile.  The boat left us on this side
of the island and we hiked up staring here, had lunch on top and hiked
back down the other side.  

This is a view of how they terrace on all these islands so they can
farm and raise food to eat.  The Lake Titikaka was so beautiful
and blue. 

This is where we ate lunch.  It had a nice view of the island and lake.

They had beautiful  weavings done by the native people.  This is a large
belt a woman would make for her husband to be.  The black stripes
on the top are her own black hair. 

This is the other side of the island as we were walking down.
  A lot more terraces.

This is down to the bottom of where we hiked
down the island.  We had to go down about
600 steps.  

This is just as you got to the top there was a  large plaza.

This boy was flying a pink kite.

These two men were sitting at the plaza with their hats and native dress.
All the men wear hats. The color of your hat and how you wear  it tells
 if you are married,single or  interested .

These are taxis we saw in Peru.

Another taxi in Puno, Peru.

Sorry I got this picture out of order.
This is the view as we climbed down the stairs of Taquile Island.
You can see the boats waiting to take us back to Puno.
The water of Lake Titikaka was really that blue.
It was about a 6 hour boat ride.  Lake Titkaka in huge!!

Another taxi in Puno.

#22 LaPaz & Peru Trip #2

We are on our way to Copacabana.  We had to cross Lake Titikaka
here.  We got on this boat.  Helen Kennedy is the first to get on.

Our van we were riding in got on this barge with this truck.

They took even large buses across. 

These are women from Copacabana.  We climbed these stairs
up a mountain at Copacabana.  

This is a view of Copacabana.

When you climb the mountain along the way people pick up
rocks representing the size of their sins.  They place them along
the way at crosses.  President Crayk found a rock just the right
size for him. 

We visited The Sun Island  where the Chikana Ruins are.
These are cleansing chambers we are standing in.

Some more of the ruins. These were built and used by the Incas.

A table used for sacrifices.  Some of the ruins have been
rebuilt.

We traveled to Sun Island on this boat.  The Lake was
very rough that morning.  Not everyone in the group
made it there before they lost their breakfast. 

This is a trail we could hike to other side of the island.

We got on this nice bus to go to Puno, Peru.

The first place we visited was the Urus Islands.  They are
completely made from reeds.  They float out in Lake Titikaka.
There was 70 of these small islands.

These women greeted our boat as we got to the islands.

This is a house on the island. About 6 to 7 families live on one island.
Their house are made of reeds and have one room.  They use
generators for electricity.

Another view of the island. When you walked on the island
it was like walking on a sponge. 

Lloyd made friends with these children.  We took them a small
gift of some pencils.

They travel from island to island on these boats and they
also have some small wooden boats.

The next island we visited was Amantani  Island.
Their homes were neat and  only  a few dog and no garbage
on this well cared for island.

A man and his burro.  You had to be in shape to live here.
Everywhere we walked it was up hill.

This man and woman were carrying heavy loads up the path.

That night a few men played some music and we danced with
some other tourists and native people.  Here Luis our guide is
having a good time dancing with a native woman.

We stayed at the Kantuta Lodge.  It was not fancy.  This is our
room.  No towels or shampoo here and also no toilet seats
on the toilets.   ???

The woman on this Island wore black heavy cloths over their heads.
They were beautifully embroidered. 

#21 Trip to LaPaz and Peru #1

This is the Bertola Family from Alpine, Utah
Their son Brett was our zone leader in Tupiza
Brett's mother, Nani brought us some very nice
packages from our family in the United States.
We all attended the temple before they left to go home 
and we left on our trip.

The Temple in Cochabamba is so beautiful at night.
They were doing a lot of work on the grounds, the inside
and they were just finishing painting the outside.

We are looking down at LaPaz.  This is the main road from the Airport.
There were heavy clouds that first morning.  LaPaz sits in a valley
with high mountains on each side.  The homes are built up high on the
mountains.

These buildings were across from our Hotel.  LaPaz had a lot
of cars and people.  It is a very big city. 

These zebras were everywhere.  They were doing advertising for
cell phones.   They were thanking the people for visiting LaPaz.

The first place we visited was called The Moon Valley.
This man is standing on some of different
rocks formations and playing flutes and tamponos.

This is some of formations.  There were paths all through
this area. 

We visited a great scenic view area next.  It is called
Quilli Quilli Look our Point.   This is our group.
You can see some of the downtown business area.  This is looking
down the valley.

We visited  a musical museum.  There were many different
instruments.  This is a mask they wear during some of
their dances and celebrations.

Another interesting mask. 

This wall displays all kinds of different hats worn by Bolivians.
That is a guitar/violin instrument on the table.

Lloyd and President Crayk walking down Sagarnaga Street.
There was a famous battle fought here between the National
Police of Bolivia and the Army. We are not sure what
they were fighting about.

We visited some Catholics churches also. The
stained glass is beautiful in many of them
They allowed pictures in this one.

Tuesday morning we all got in this van with our two guides.
Luis and Rodrigo 

We visited an area where they make reed boats.  This man
is laying our the reed and tying them together.

This a reed boat.  It looks like is got a new head.
This was our first view of Lake Titikaka.  It
was beautiful.

Lloyd and Kristie's first ride on Lake Titikaka.

This is Paulino Esteban.  He is famous for building reed boats.
You can see a small scale reed boat in front of him.  

We stopped at this restaurant to have lunch. The couches
are made from reeds.  We had fried trout from Lake Titikaka.
It was very tasty.

A view of Lake Titikaka from the restaurant where we had lunch.

Lloyd and President Crayk had fun deciding the best
way to wear their caps and Bolivian stocking hats.