the floating islands of the uros

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Leaving the amazing salar I took a bus back to La Paz and from La Paz back into Peru. This time I stopped in Puno at the peruvian part of the Titicaca-lake. Actually a rather uninteresting and filthy city, it is famous because of its "floating islands". A tribe called the Uros has been living for a long time under rough conditions directly on the lake. They built their islands as well as their boats from a reef-plant that grows at the shore of the lake... Constantly renewing their islands and working on them they have built their own little world on the lake - amazing to witness...
I went there in the afternoon just returning at sunset - with the most beautiful colours on the lake!

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arriving at the floating islands
people are living in so many different ways - but this is really special!