After our super fun (and cold) stay on our floating island, we stayed one more night in Puno before catching our early morning bus back to Cuzco. We arrived at our bus stop at the appointed time to find out that our bus was not going to run that day as there were some protests going on which blocked the road to Cuzco.
Which confused us when they said another bus was going to Cuzco... which they put us on. So, we thought they were just lazy or the bus wasn't full until, we arrived at the road block a couple hours later. Sure enough, there were some very organized protestors who had blocked every road in between Puno to Cuzco. So, after 3 hours of attempting to get to the other side of the blockade (many ideas were suggested... walking, taxis, riding on the back of motorcycles, the bus on the other side of the blockade switching with us, and more... none of which were successful), we returned to Puno where we purchased last minute tickets to fly to Lima (as we were going to miss our flight to Cuzco the next morning).
We had an easy flight to Lima where we had dinner and were rescued from a night staying up in the airport by our dear friends from Riverside... the Dirkeses!
The blockade!
We did have a pretty view while we waited though! :O)
Which confused us when they said another bus was going to Cuzco... which they put us on. So, we thought they were just lazy or the bus wasn't full until, we arrived at the road block a couple hours later. Sure enough, there were some very organized protestors who had blocked every road in between Puno to Cuzco. So, after 3 hours of attempting to get to the other side of the blockade (many ideas were suggested... walking, taxis, riding on the back of motorcycles, the bus on the other side of the blockade switching with us, and more... none of which were successful), we returned to Puno where we purchased last minute tickets to fly to Lima (as we were going to miss our flight to Cuzco the next morning).
We had an easy flight to Lima where we had dinner and were rescued from a night staying up in the airport by our dear friends from Riverside... the Dirkeses!
The blockade!
We did have a pretty view while we waited though! :O)
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