Lake Titikaka certainly offered some great views as well as some new experiences as we stayed one night in one of the lake´s communities. Some features of our visit reminded me greatly of the visit to Masai-village in Africa. Although tourism might have some positive influence on the development of these communities, it certainly also has negative ones when asking money or selling some crap is the most important part of our visit.
In Taquile and Chucuito our visits were quite nice but Uros was just a total tourist trap. I have had some minor symptoms of altitude sickness but nothing more than annoying little headaches. Oh, and of course I also inrured my ankle/achilles at Chucuito while playing football with the locals. It seemed bad in the beginning since I could not get ice on it, but now after couple of days I think it will be just fine for the 45 km Inca-trail which we are starting on thursday.
Fortunately (and keeping my fingers crossed) I have not had stomach problems as some of our group members. Also the jetlag is finally starting to fade away since I had my first good night sleep here at Cuzco last night. Of course this positive development meant that something negative had to happen for the overall situation to stay in balance so I just lost my credit card to one ATM. I´m on my way to the main office of the bank right now but our guide told me that my card is probably gone for good. Well, I will find out soon.
Oh, almost forgot - there is somekind of "day of Peruvian Police forces" going on here and when I was walking around the central area of Cuzco this morning, I witnessed a small riot that ended Police shooting some gas towards the protesters. Well, that is just a regular day around here but also a good reminder that in South-America expecting the unexpected is a wise thing to do. Ok, I´ll go to the bank now to settle this issue with my card.
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