Lake Titicaca

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Lake Titicaca

Day Trip to the Highest Lake in South America and the 2nd Bigggest

Lake Titicaca is the world's highest lake navigable to large vessels, lying at 12,500 feet (3,810 m) above sea level in the Andes Mountains of South America, astride the border between Peru to the west and Bolivia to the east. Titicaca is the second largest lake of South America (after Maracaibo).

It covers some 3,200 square miles (8,300 square km) and extends in a northwest-to-southeast direction for a distance of 120 miles (190 km). It is 50 miles (80 km) across at its widest point.

We spent the night on one of the Lakes islands of Amantani in a house with a local person and ejoyed the many festive highlights of that way of living.

Lake titicaca is so big that its hard to appriciate some times how big it actually is but it is so beutiful to look at. We watch the sunset over the lake from the island we were staying at.

For the night that we were there the locals threw a Party where we all dressed in the tradicional dress for the island and danced the dances of the culture it was alot of fun, but at altitude its strange how quick you get out of breath.

This was my last trip in Peru and i am glad that i saw titicaca. The surrounding towns are nothing great but the lake is worth seeing.

Here are some pictures for you.

This sadly will be my last entry before i return to England, but i intend to do a summary of my best photos and friends i have met along the way in a final blog.

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Photos

On The Boat
Safe and Getting Brownie points with the locals

Lake from Our island
The view from our house

SunSet
Craig And I watch the sun set

The SunSet
Nice....

PARTY....
Me and My Titiaca Mum in tradicional dress. They really do dress like this.

Our House
This is our house for the night, Its made of Mud but they all were

Top of the Island
Me at the top of the island with Titicaca in the Background

Local Women
A local women in her boat

Comments

[Lara- la australiana]

Chau
ay, ¡que celosa estoy! Que hayas tenido un viaje tan maravilloso mientras yo me quedo aquí en australia, estudiando y trabajando y estudiando más =P. Pero que bueno para ti, que todo fuera tan fantástico (aunque perdiste la oportunidad de vivir con personas tan perfectas como yo y las otras en Casa ECELA, la casa de las fiestas mejores del mundo). Grácias por la oportunidad de compartir tus aventuras por la red, he disfrutado tus blogs y tus fotos, fueron superbien. Es obvio que has tenido montones de experiencias maravillosos que puedes llevar a inglaterra, y nunca vas a olvidarlas. Buena suerte cuando regreses... Besos, Lara