Yuvari, There She Blows!

Whilst in Puno we visited one of the oldest steam ships in the world, which is moored just outside Puno. The boat was commissioned by the Peruvian government as a vessel for Lake Titicaca and was built in Britain, then shipped in pieces to Arica in northern Chile, then transported by mule, over the Andes to Lake Titicaca. Each piece of the ship had to be made into small pieces not over 400lbs as they needed to be carried by the mules. They built the ship in four months, cut into over 2,700 pieces and then transported. It took six years in total to get all the pieces to Lake Titicaca! The ship was found in the 1980´s and restored to it´s formed glory and is now a working ship and museum on the lake.

The engine was pretty cool and Stu loved it. The fixtures and fittings are, where possible, the original features and it is loved today by a very passionate crew.