Puno / Islas de Los Uros

Crossing into Peru we stopped in Puno for the night and I (Sam didn't want to wake up) went on a tour of the floating islands on Lake Titicaca. The islands have been inhabited consistently for hundreds of years and are built from lake reeds all piled on top of each other. The uros people originally left the mainland on reed boats, which they tied together when on the water so multiple families could live together. As the boats disintegrated they realised they could make islands of the same material. Each island requires constant maintenance and addition of new reeds each week.Read more