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Today we’re setting out for another day long bus ride. This one will take us from Puno to Cusco. Along the way we will pass through Pukara and Abra La Raya. While our bus didn’t stop there, it is Abra …

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History and Mystery. The Uros people are not native to the high Andes. Rather, they appear to be descended from people who migrated from the Amazon Rainforest perhaps as long as 3,700 years ago. Over time, they intermarried with the …

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It’s Saturday and today we leave Bolivia for PerĂº in what will be my last international border crossing until I return home to the U S. This crossing was unique for me because we walked from one country to the …