First hour in Peru

Time goes by fast, that´s why I haven´t been that eager to spend time in Cybercafes.
Anyway, since lsat post, we´ve seen La Paz, Cobacabana and Lake Titicaca.
One hour ago we arrived to Puno, Peru.

We´ve heard many people say that you either love or hate La Paz. Well, I don´t.
It was an interesting city, very busy and full of everything. There were things that I wouldn´t say I love (very crowded streets, trash and pee) but it was also very beautiful in some places. Also the city is built to a quite astouding place, in 3500 meters and in the middle of the mountains.

To get our lazy asses movin, we went little bit mountain biking. World´s most dangedous road, like they say, goes from La Paz to Coroico. It starts from 4700 m ending to around 1200 meters and it´s 66 km long. Mostly downhill, except couple of short but tiring parts to uphill. I started feeling a bit ill just the previous night but this was something I couldn´t cancel. So, off we went and even though I felt couple of times like I was going to faint, we continued till the end. Some might say that the illness was because of excitement. Maybe, but it got worse after the experience. Also the experience got worse after. On the way back we saw a police car parked on this 3m narrow road and some people watching down to canyon. A truck had fallen down earlier on the day, which meant that we had passed the place while the truck was down there. There´s just so much trees and bushes that it´s impossible to notice anything from up, unless you´re really searching something. Like the police were. So because it was late and only two policemen, we got to help them in rescue operation. The bad thing was that only thing to rescue was a dead body of the truck driver. There were we, pulling up a "sleigh" were this body was. It was quite silent trip back to La Paz, althought our driver didn´t seem to care and drove as fast as that far.

Lake Titicaca is beautiful. It is situed in 3800m and it´s the world´s highest navigable lake. Whatever, it´s in the middle of the mountains and the views are nice.
Unfortunately there was a bus strike just starting in Bolivia, so our trip to Peru delayed a bit. It meant that we are not going to see the Peruvian side of the lake cause we are heading to Cusco straight away tomorrow morning.