Lake Titicaca
July 20th 2009 We spent a day out on Lake Titicaca visiting two islands, Uros and Taquille. Lake Titicaca is the world's highest navigable lake. After a half hour sail from Puno we docked alongside Los Uros, a floating island made from totura reeds. We were shown how large sods of turf are joined together and then anchored to a depth of 20 metres in the lake bed. Totora reeds are then laid across the turf in a c
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