Please visit Site Map and Disclaimer . We docked at Puno and cleared customs. For a few miles the tracks hug the lake shore and some of the traditional reed boats used on the lake were visible. I suspect they're still there. This is a poor country.
Reeds are free and easily repaired.
Any pretense we were going to have a nice placid ride vanished at the first stop when vendors swarmed aboard to sell things. So we all went with the flow. By the end of the day we had card games with total strangers going across the aisle, conversations in half a dozen languages, and generally had a blast. They missed all the fun. The bearded guy in the Inca hat is actually from Switzerland.