Arriving at the islands

August 1st 2008
Puno Puno sits on the Peruvian side of Lake Titicaca and from here we visited the Islas Flotanas. Amazingly they are, literally, floating islands made from reeds which grow on the lake. We walked down to the little port and boarded a little boat with a capacity for 15 people, loaded up with 20+ people. At a snails pace we chugged out through the reeds to the Uros Islands. Everyo ... read more

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more

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Sean & Lou

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An Aussie guy and an Irish girl taking a year off to travel around South America and Africa. We're living in Melbourne at the moment but will be travelling to London in June and this is where we'll start our great adventure. Update (October 08) We're totally behind on the South American blogs. Still to come are: Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and southern Argentina. We're now in Africa, having travelled overland from South Africa, through Botswana to Zambia. Next up is Ethiopia. We probably won't get a chance to add the African blogs until we're back in Ireland/England - th... full info

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