Puno and the Uros Floating Islands - Peru

Our first stop in Peru was Puno where, aside from eating tremendous three course meals, the main attraction is visiting the floating islands on Lake Titicaca.

The science of the floating islands was fascinating - essentially the Uros people use the reeds and the roots of the reeds that grow in certain parts of Lake Titicaca to build themselves floating islands to live on. These days the science of the islands is overshadowed and the novelty of the floating islands is little more than a fiction used to lure the tourist dollar.



We made our token contribution and then carried on our boat ride a few more hours out on the lake to the very real and very big island of Amantani. We stayed the night with our host Bastilla and her family. Bastilla and her mother turned on some outstanding feasts for us in their pokey little kitchen lit by a single candle (and unfortunately my flash).

We ended the day than with a walk to the top of the island to watch the sun set over the endless crops of the locals.

And then we boogied with the locals.