Lake Titicaca, Uros Islands

Uros Islands are floating island made of reeds, The Uros people were forced to live there when the Incas expanded into their land. For hundreds of years they had to constantly renew the reeds to keep the island floating, they still doin it, but just for touristic porpoise. On this pic the traditional Uros boat, also made just for turistic porpoises. as you can see the lady in Chola’s clothes use a normal motorised fishing boat to move around.

Cusco and Puno

January 19th 2020
We landed in Cusco late at night and shared a taxi into the city centre with a Dutch couple who we’d already seen on our bus in Colca. In fact, this made me realise that of all the countries we’d been to so far, Peru was the most touristy as time and again we would bump into the same people either on a plane, bus, bus terminal or even airport. I suppose it makes sense since people from all the ... 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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