Lake Titicaca

The morning after our trip to Puno we set out for a Lake Titicaca tour. Our favorite part of the tour was the floating islands. The people that live on these islands cut the reeds that grow on the lake and criss-cross them making islands.

On the dock.

Approaching the floating islands.

Getting some help to shore from the locals.

Ice cream man.

On a floating island, that is our tour boat in the background.

One of the reed boats.

Neighboring island in the distance.

Classic arm shot of the two of us. I love him.

While on the island, we became friends with a little boy named Oscar. He sold us some post cards and then decided he liked us enough to ham it up for us the rest of the time on the island.

The bowl that Oscar is looking in has live fish in it.

We learned that Lake Titicaca used to have twenty-one kinds of fish, sadly it now contains only three.

The children on the island use a buddy system to keep the little one's safe. An older child is paired with a younger child. By the age of five all of the children know how to row a boat by themselves and get themselves to and from school this way.

After leaving the floating island we headed to Taquile Island. The island did not have much on it but it did have an amazing view of the lake and Bolivia in the background.



After exploring for a bit it was time to head back to Puno.

Once back in Puno, Greg and I went out exploring. Here is some of what we saw...

The last two are of us and our hotel door...I loved it!

The next day we left early to take the bus back to Cusco.

Bad shadows but the only decent one of us on the bus back to Cusco.