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Title:
The floating islands of Uros, Peru
Description:
These are man-made floating islands in Lake Titicaca, Peru
Author:
alfamale1974
Tags:
uros, lake, titicaca, peru,
The floating islands of Uros, Peru
Description:
These are man-made floating islands in Lake Titicaca, Peru
Author:
alfamale1974
Tags:
uros, lake, titicaca, peru,
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 | Uros Islands "The Uros is the name of a group of pre-Incan people who live on 42 self-fashioned floating man-made-isles located in Lake Tiicaca off Puno, Peru. The Uros use the totora plant to make boats (balsas mats) of bundled dried reeds as well as to make the islands themselves. Around 3000 descendants of the Uros are alive today, although only a few hundred still live on and maintain the islands; most have moved to the mainland. The Uros also bury their dead on the mainland in special cemeteries".... |
 | Lake Titicaca, Puno & Sillustani (Peru) Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world at an altitude of 3827 metres (12500 feet). We took a ride in a reed boat to the floating islands before visiting Puno quayside, where the steam ship Ollanta is moored. Sadly, the train ferry to Guaqui in Bolivia no longer operates. From there we head to Sillustani, with its circular burial towers that overlook Lake Umayo. October 2001 |
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