Floating Islands on lake Titicaca

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We arrived at the floating islands of Uros, and what a beautiful site it was. The photo’s do not do it justice.
We were greeted by the family from the island we had chosen to visit, then we sat down as you would have sat in school to be lectured about the islands, how the people came to be here, how the islands were constructed and how the communities worked, that sort of stuff, very interesting.
We were shown foods that were eaten on the islands, (fish and reeds), some of the reeds we tried, not bad.
We were then led off to look around the houses that people lived in on the island we were on, my host was called Cecilia, we were then offered some of the wares made by these people.

After we said our goodbye’s and our hosts had sung to us, we boarded a reed boat and were sailed across to another island to have a look around. This one had a fish farm in the middle, growing trout.
We said farewell again and boarded our motorised vessel and headed back to Puno.

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Photos

Our Guide........Neal
only slightly mad.........likes Metallica

Sunset
what a race that was

Our accomodation was very comfy
and welcoming

Reeds
food and building materials..............mmmm not bad.

Singing
as they say farewell to us and we sail off on a reed boat.............made with about 2000 plastic bottles for floatation.