Gallery: The Wonderful Floating Islands of Uros on Lake Titicaca, Puno!

We were also offered this emotionallly unstable chappy, sadly without eye protection.

We were also offered this emotionallly unstable chappy, sadly without eye protection.24-Aug-2009 17:29, Canon Canon EOS 400D DIGIT, 8.0, 65.0mm, 0.004 sec, ISO 400

Imaginatively located on the highest navigable lake in the world, Lake Titicaca, we’d been told the Floating Islands of Uros are a tourist trap and the only thing to see in Puno. Right on both counts, but a tourist trap for a reason; they’re really quite interesting! Over five hundred years ago, the original inhabitants fled from the shores of the lake to avoid the impending Incan invasion. Now, they avoid property tax. But they also offer an insight into one of the strangest ways of living in the world, and it was a great way to break up the 18hr bus journey from Cusco, Peru to La Paz, Bolivia.

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