Puno

On my fist day in Puno I took it fairly easy and visited the iron hulled ship, the Yavari. The Yavari made it to Lake Titicaca (hahahhaa) first by shipping it, in pieces from England around Cape Horn and to Arica. The 1383 pieces were carried by mule over the Andes to Lake Titicaca (smirk). Anyhow, after a year of service as a cargo ship, and a short stint on a beach, it is now a museum with the donations generated going towards retro-fitting the cargo boat into a passenger liner.


Centering photos is so 2005


She´s little in the front but she´s got much back


The Wheel House


A whopping 320 horses of pure steam!?!?

So, apparently my camera´s autoflash is not the brilliant piece of artificial intelligence I thought it was. It is easily fooled into believing there is sufficient light when it is sunny outside and the room has windows. Most of the photos I took of the vessel are too dark to bother posting. However, I must say she is a beautiful ship. "She" you ask? Well the reason for calling a boat a she is summed up by this plaque hanging in the mess hall (sorry ladies).


Oh no you didn´t!