After the 10 hour bus ride to Puno, and the accompanying change in altitude to 3,800 meters, we were startging to second guess the two day excursion on Lake Titicaca, but we sucked it up, repacked bags to travel as light as possible, and set the alarm for 6:30 Tuesday morning to catch a boat tour of Uros, Amantani, and Taquile. Uros I´ll forgive you if reading my description of Uros, you might think that I have drank a bit much coca tea. A long time ago, a group of people decided that they needed some space from the mainland cultures, including the incas, who were in a bit of a conquesting mood. So they came up with a unique solution by building huge floating islands out of a peat like material found at the bottom
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