Keith & Erin's World Adventure: Cusco to Puno

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Note: For more information about these pictures, read about our first-class bus ride to Puno.

First Class Bussing — Keith, tucked under a nice alpaca blanket, snoozes on the stretches between visits to ruins along the road from Cusco to Puno.

Sillustani — Chullpas, or pre-Columbian funeral towers, are the main attraction at Sillustani, just outside of Puno.

Sillustani Burial Tower — Although their construction dates back to the 15th century Incan occupation, these towers are actually burial towers built by the Aymarra tribes the Incans supplanted. The Incans knew superior architecture when they saw it, but they failed to recreate it, as unfinished towers such like this one attest.

Sillustani - Inside Tower — The inside of a burial tower. The indentation, filled with rocks, was once filled with the bones of the deceased; the rest of the tower often contained his cherished possessions, which may have included his family members. (They were usually dead at that point, too.)

Storms over Sillustani — A huge hailstorm over Lake Umayo interrupts our visit to Sillustani and leaves us running for the museum at the bottom of the hill.

Curious Alpaca — This alpaca showed an amazing curiosity by fleeing from his flock to come over and give Keith a good sniff. Keith reacts in a way that suggests he's still a bit wary after his canine experience in Quito, but he soon learns that alpacas are too brain-damanged to know how to bite anything bigger than a blade of grass.

Lake Titicaca — Keith and Erin posing over the city of Puno, on the Peruvian edge of Lake Titicaca.

Lake Titicaca and Puno — Dusk falls over Lake Titicaca, with the town of Puno anxiously awaiting us in the foreground.

	First Class Bussing — Keith, tucked under a nice alpaca blanket, snoozes on the stretches between visits to ruins along the road from Cusco to Puno.
	Sillustani — Chullpas, or pre-Columbian funeral towers, are the main attraction at Sillustani, just outside of Puno.
	Sillustani Burial Tower — Although their construction dates back to the 15th century Incan occupation, these towers are actually burial towers built by the Aymarra tribes the Incans supplanted. The Incans knew superior architecture when they saw it, but they failed to recreate it, as unfinished towers such like this one attest.
	Sillustani - Inside Tower — The inside of a burial tower. The indentation, filled with rocks, was once filled with the bones of the deceased; the rest of the tower often contained his cherished possessions, which may have included his family members. (They were usually dead at that point, too.)
	Storms over Sillustani — A huge hailstorm over Lake Umayo interrupts our visit to Sillustani and leaves us running for the museum at the bottom of the hill.
	Curious Alpaca — This alpaca showed an amazing curiosity by fleeing from his flock to come over and give Keith a good sniff. Keith reacts in a way that suggests he's still a bit wary after his canine experience in Quito, but he soon learns that alpacas are too brain-damanged to know how to bite anything bigger than a blade of grass.
	Lake Titicaca — Keith and Erin posing over the city of Puno, on the Peruvian edge of Lake Titicaca.
	Lake Titicaca and Puno — Dusk falls over Lake Titicaca, with the town of Puno anxiously awaiting us in the foreground.