Lake Titi- Taquile- Homestay

When we decided to do a 'homestay' on Island Taquile, we were prepared for the usual: here's your mat, your mosquito net, your rice..and good luck. So we were very pleasantly surprised when we arrived on Taquile and were shown our humble abode: there was a house with windows, we had our own room with two real beds in it and warm blankets, so did Yann and Catherine, our friends from Toulouse. In order to keep the whole thing under the label 'Close to nature', however, we were shown to our real Trainspotting toilet in a wee hut behind the house, no flush, no door, but the most beautiful view from a toilet I have ever had! The bath was called Lake Titikaka. Our highlight, however was the dinner: a room, door wide open (as you do at 4 degrees at 3700m above Sea level), no heating, no light, just a romantic candle planted in the middle of a couloufully set-out table. And just to make us feel at home: the dinner was omelette with rice. We loved it!