Intinkala

I dithered yet more after lunch but in the end I decided to stay here tonight. I´ve bought a ticket for the 8:30am bus tomorrow, with the idea that will give me the afternoon to see a bit of the town and also sort myself out with a tour of the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca for the next day. I need to book myself a hostel online if possible now.

I checked back in at the hotel, re-packed my bags to tidy things up and gather all the food in one convenient place for examination, then consulted my map and decided I´d try to walk over to the Inca ruins at Intikala/Intinkala. (My map spells it both ways.) Hahahahaha. The map is complete fiction in the outlying areas of the town, I know this is not just due to my poor map reading as I entered one street it showed as being a normal length and joining two other streets and walked down it without a turn off for about 10 minutes, during which time it degenerated from a proper road into the sort of track you just might get a four-wheel drive vehicle down.

I saw some stones sticking out of a hill and some very minor tumbledown building, either of which may actually have been the site, although quite possibly neither was. But I have no clue. A lot of these ruins seem to require specialised knowledge just to recognise. I only realised today that the stone table I had seen at the north end of Isla del Sol is apparently an Inca relic (unless the hostel leaflet I found in my pocket while tidying up was lying).