Day5

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We were woken by our host at 6am for a 6:30am breakfast. We were provided with a bucket of water and bowl in order to wash. Ollie was still feeling queasy, Vaughan gave him an altitude sickness tablet, but he decided to give breakfast a miss. Breakfast consisted of pancakes with marmalade and coca tea. We then said our farewells to the family, bought the chullo hats we had been knitted and were then escorted to the boat for our 3 hour trip to the floating Uros islands. We visited two of the islands which are made entirely of reeds from the lake to a depth of 2m. Whilst three islands have been around for many years, the locals appear reliant a great deal upon tourism, selling handmade goods from reeds and from weaving. It is certainly an unusual sensation walking on top of the reeds. We then had the opportunity to travel to another island by an oar powered reed boat. The rest of the day was spent resting at our hotel in Puno.

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