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Published: October 10th 2007
A brief stop in Puno on my race against time from La Paz-Lima by bus to catch my flight to Ecuador on the 14th. Totally worth it though, since Jess and I managed to catch a quick tour to the Uros Islands, this loco (crazy) concept: a bunch of islands that float around in the massive Lake Titicaca, the huge body of water that straddles the Peru-Bolivia border.
It´s not quite as primitive as you would imagine though, they´ve got anchors and everything. Sometimes they here, sometimes they there, it all depends on what the local chief wants. For visitors from Puno, the closest town to the island on the shores of the lake, the chief tells you which island you can visit on your tour boat so as to spread the tourist revenue equally among the islands.
It is a strange feeling on the islands, since you know they are pretty stable, but when you jump off your boat onto them you can feel some bobbling.
Interesting fact about Lake Titicaca: It was formed with the Andes, when a huge body of salt water got trapped inland. However it ain´t that salty anymore, simply because there is
One of the multiple watchtowers on the islands
Im not sure exactly why they have them, but I guess its important to have if you drift off a bit, and need to find the other islands.this river that flows out of it to Bolivia. And all the salt floated down the river and formed the massive Uyuni salt flats where we were just a couple of days ago. Pretty cool eh?
After a couple of hours on the lake, I said a sad goodbye to Jess, my travelling buddy for the last 10 days or so in Bolivia, and jumped onto my 25 hour bus to Lima.
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