Lake Titicaca - Amantani

Amantani is much like Taquile but the activities for us are different. We play a game of soccer with the locals (we got creamed) and walk up to the top of the island to visit a stone ruin.

It's early evening when we get back down. There's no hotel on the island so we stay the night in a private house - two people from the group per house.

We have dinner with the family and also breakfast the next morning. Over dinner, Peter and I played cards with the family's three young children (we got creamed again) and went to a music & dance night at the local hall. Us guys had to wear a Peruvian style woollen cap and poncho and the girls wore blouses with triple-layered skirts.

I struggled to "go with the flow" on all this and found the overnight stay a bit cheesy.

However, the basic farm-house accommodation (lumpy beds, no running water and oil lamps) makes me think on my father's childhood back in the ol' country (Lithuania).