Fri 12 Dec 2008
Puno and the Floating Islands
Posted by daveg under Uncategorized
Just a photo post. Puno was nice but nothing too interesting happened to warrant text. We did have some pretty pics though.
360 degree rainbow.
These guys lived on floating islands. Wikipedia says “
The Uros is the name of a group of pre-Incan people who live on 42 self-fashioned floating man-made islets located in Lake Titicaca 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.[1]
Los Uros island
The Uros islands at 3810 meters above sea level are just 5 Km west from Puno port [2] (20 minutes in a boat ride from Puno). Around 2,000 descendants of the Uros were counted in the 1997 census,[3] 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.”
The President explains stuff to us. He’s floating in the middle of a lake but has a DVD player and TV thanks to solar power!
December 14th, 2008 at 1:04 am
Great shots. Itinerary for Ushuaia? Looking at findmespot - it looks like you have 1000 miles (as the crow flies) to get to TDF. You are almost there!
Amazing trip. Looking forward to seeing you back in the states. Where will the return party be? Austin or Houston? We will be there with bells on.
-G