Today was a bit uninteresting, we retraced our steps back from a few days ago, the weather was a bit dull and there were too many dead dogs on the road for our liking. There were two regularity sections today both of which went normally (badly) and another one was cancelled because they were blasting some rock to widen the road. The highlight of the day was probably the rice pudding at lunch, which was excellent.
Tonight we stay on the shores of Lake Titicaca, thankfully some way out of Puna which is a complete shambles. They have a really dumb law in Peru whereby you don't have to pay any property tax until the building is finished, so all the buildings are half finished which looks dreadful.
Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world, at 3811m (12,500 feet) above sea level, although it is receding due to lack of rainfall and smaller glaciers, it apparently dropped 81cm in 2009 alone.
Hopefully things will be more lively tomorrow as we enter Bolivia...
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