 | Uros Islands, Peru |
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... interest of preserving their culture from the expanding Inca empire, they sailed out onto the lake and built their own islands to protect themselves. With constant replenishing of reeds (weekly in the rainy season), these people have been here ever since ...
... ruins of Machu Picchu have been another fascinating highlight of Peru. Rambling and cycling around the amazing scenery of the Cordillera Blanca is some of the best we've done. The Uros islands are amazing and unlike anything else we've seen before.
... an evening in Puno - which to be fair was probably enough. The reason for being there was to visit the floating reed islands of the Uros indians on Lake Titicaca. It was rubbish. We bundled on to a motor boat - after having been instructed to buy ...
... did it all in less than 5 minutes. We got on the boat, gave Jeni a hug and were off to the reed islands (Uros Islands). Cruising very slowly aboard a boat leaking diesel fumes, Tara fell asleep in the cabin. Likely she just passed out from the diesel. ...
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Top 5 things in Lake Titicaca???
Posted on Jul 3, 2009, 18:21:59
Fantastic. I loved LT, thought it was just magic. Can anyone recommend one of the uros islands for staying on overnight, and is it pretty cold? How do you get from Puno to copacabana on the bolivian side - boat or land? There are no boats, you have ...
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Top 5 things in Lake Titicaca???
Posted on Jul 3, 2009, 13:13:45
Fantastic. I loved LT, thought it was just magic. Can anyone recommend one of the uros islands for staying on overnight, and is it pretty cold? How do you get from Puno to copacabana on the bolivian side - boat or land?
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Top 5 things in Lake Titicaca???
Posted on Jun 29, 2009, 22:11:36
By all means do the floating Uros islands from Puno, which is a miserable town, then hightail it out to Copacabana in Bolivia, and much more attractive place. Be sure to visit Isla del Sol.
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Any suggestions for travel Buenos Aires - Cusco?
Posted on May 25, 2009, 06:12:35
... . I suggest you stay at least one night at Copacabana and visit Isla del Sol. Puno in Peru is a miserable place, though a visit to the floating Uros Islands is interesting. From Cuzco come back south to Arequipa (you might want to look into the Cuzco to ...
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