My memories of Puno in Peru on the shore of Lake Titicaca, is that it felt like it's been a lesser used transfer point for various budget inter-planetary/inter-galactic "bus routes" for centuries if not millennia ... Mos Eisley in the Andes.
The food places scattered around the "spaceport" are interesting. All sorts of food seems to have been put together to meet a non-local's request without the cook ever having seen or tasted the original item.