Sleeping on reeds

Emma writes-

We took a boat trip on Lake Titicaca to the floating islands of los Uros, and decided to stay there the night at the Kamisaraki Inn. It costs about a tenner for a night's bed, dinner and breakfast, with the dubious question of "would you like trout for breakfast or dinner?" Staple diet of the islanders it seems. "Dinner please. Without a head."

Conversation and company was shared with a Californian photography student, who like us had ignored the warnings of a loud mouth Peruvian tourist that it was very dangerous to stay on the Islands, due to the cutting of throats of guests. But after an educated guess that this would be counter-productive to the Islands´main income of tourism, we stayed. The blankets were thick, the hut waterproof and the stars were out in force. A few thunder storms passed overhead at night and Matt was rather concerned about being on an island made of reed, with a telephone aerial sticking 20 meters in the air in the middle of a static storm. But, we survived til five am, when we were woken up with a goose egg buttie and a chilly trip on a motor boat back to the mainland at Puno to catch our bus to Bolivia...

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