2013. március 13., szerda

Lake Titicaca and a night on a floating island



Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world at 3812 meters above sea level. It is notable for a population of people who live on the Uros, a group of 44 or so artificial islands made of floating reeds. Their original purpose was defence against the Incas and later the Spanish.

These floating islands became tourist attractions since the early 2000s when the first commercial visitors were allowed to set foot and very rarely stay and sleep on the islands. As most of the tourist groups just hop over, look around, then go back to Puno, we felt lucky to have the chance to spend a day and a night living with the natives.





Checkpoint - entry is not for anyone




 Our dinner, soup and fish, is getting ready


 It was rather cold at about 7 degrees at night


 The local primary school that offers education to kids from the islands nearby


 Yepp..  


 3 to 5 families live on an island and each island has its chief. Ours in the baseball cap is making sure everything is all right with the dinner..


 At dusk, the lights of Puno


The chief's hut, one of lucky couples in our group managed to get this for a night 


'Farm' animals.. yes, that's a guinea pig 


 Breakfast time!



 Our not-too-big island


 Neighbours


Waterway to and from Puno 


Puno harbour


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