So we left Cusco and travelled 6 hours by bus to Puno which is even colder and higher than Cusco but it seemed nice enough. To be honest we didn´t see a lot of it as we arrived in the afternoon and were then to head off early to next day to Lake Titicaca, the world´s largest high-altitude lake (it covers 8400 sq km). First we travelled by boat to the floating islands made of reeds, these are man-made islands which are topped up each month with fresh reeds otherwise they would eventually sink. They last for approximately 20-25 years and several families live on each. It was interesting to find out how they live, they literally live off the land, hunting birds and fish and they also keep guniea pigs but they had all been
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