Budget Accommodation Budget Hotels South America Peru Juliaca
Juliaca is a city in the south of Peru, about an hour from Puno and located at around 3,825 metres above sea level.
From the Juliaca Travel Guide
buy bundles of Bolivian Pesos
Wednesday 20th November 1985 Bone shattering night on a bus from Cuzco on unsurfaced mountain roads. Arrive in Juliaca at dawn and the road surface improves, a little. Border stop at Desquarrdes. Change Soles - Pesos, 100,000-7.5 million. 1.3 million to the dollar as I arrive. It will be 1.4 million ...
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the bird poo thieves
Wednesday 4th December 1985 Arrive in Lima 6am after overnight bus ride down from Juliaca. Hair raising journey along the Pan American Highway. Sat next to a mother and small child a lot of the way. His constant wingeing irritated me intensely. After a while I realised he had ear ache and I was able to summon ...
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1st day in Puno
To get to Puno, you first have to fly into the town of Juliaca. The best way to describe Juliaca is kind of like the crater of a moon with some half built shacks everywhere. I think I might be making it sound nice. The airport was okay though (albeit the smallest one we have ever been to) and we were ...
Posted in Michael & Laura's Peru Adventure 2009 by mkingston