We leave Cuzco at around 8am, and get on our bus to Puno. It's very much a relaxing day, but Puno is quite high altitude so it's going to get colder. On the journey we pass the highest altitude point, 4300 ish, and at this point there are some markets with Alpaca wool goods, here we go with shopping again... It's just irresistible in Peru, you literally can't stop yourself buying stuff! Well I am lucky because I literally don't have much money, so I just keep picking things up and saying the one price, after all that is all I have... I am lucky, and get some real bargains that are gorgeous.
Back on the bus, our next stop is lunch and a special cooked lamb... It was delicious, very interesting the way it is cooked and stored, it's not often a eat a lamb out of a mound of news paper with a baked potatoe using my hands!!! But well worth the pit stop to experience it. Now it's Pisco cocktail making time.
Yuri is in his element, handing out limes to squeeze and giving a lesson in where Pisco comes from, how to savour a shot of Pisco, how to make the perfect Pisco Sour, he is an expert despite the ridiculously bumpy bus ride at separating the egg white from the yolk into the cocktail shaker. And then it's time to shake... Almost crying with laughter as Yuri stops to ensure the right music is playing on the bus as he starts to shake the cocktail.... I come from a land down under... Really!!! Delicious though... Think I have found a new drink!
We all get a go at making them, shaking them and certainly drinking them and are all a little bit tipsy when we pile off the bus in Puno. Well it is Paddy's day after all!!! Checkin, quick dinner and early to bed, we have an interesting day on Lake Titikaka tomorrow...
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