The Rest of Our Trip

The rest of our trip was awesome.  We had some interesting bus rides and met a lot of interesting people from all around the world.  We crossed the border into Arica, Chile.  We were there for a day and climbed up a big rock hill that overlooked the city and ocean.  It was a steep climb, but there was a cool little path ready to take us.  Here´s a picture of the view from the city.  By the way, we ate and McDonalds and it was one of the most expensive meals we ate on our entire trip.  Strange from and American perspective.

Below is a view from the top of the hill, looking out to some more coast terrain.  The rest of the place was a giant sand desert.  Very arid and dry, but fascinating.
After Arequipa, and before Arica, we took a bus up to Puno, alongside Lake Titicaca.  The lake sits at an elevation of 12,500 ft and gets rather chilly.  We were frozen, but got some alpaca beanies to warm us.  We took a tour to some of the island on the lake and here are some pictures of that.  We also went to the floating reed islands and saw how the people live there.  Needless to say, the live off of tourists...taking us on rides in their reed boats and selling trinkets.