Lake Titicaca

Trip Start Nov 29, 2007
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Trip End Feb 05, 2008


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Monday, December 17, 2007

We have just returned from a two day tour of the islands of Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. We started by visiting the floating islands of Uros which are just the strangest and most interesting things to see. About 2000 years ago the Uros tribe decided to flee their area as tribes were fighting over the land so they made boats out of reeds and sailed onto lake titicaca.
They decided to stay on the lake so they tied their boats together. Eventually they created entire islands out of these floating reeds and built reed houses on aprox. 1.5 metre thick 'ground'. their descendants still have this lifestyle (although it seems mainly for attracting tourists) but was fascinating to see.
we then went to the island of amantani where we met our host mother, Marta who cooked us lunch and dinner. it was amusing trying to communicate with her as she spoke less spanish than we did. however i was in luck as it turned out that the entire island was vegetarian and my struggles to explain myself were unneccesary.
in the morning we went to the island of taquile, walked around a bit, had lunch and now we{re back in Puno, where in about 3 hours we{ll be catching a bus to the Chilean border.
-Yaz
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