Here you can read all about it. Sometimes it's traveling, sometimes it's homeschooling, occasionally we bitch. For some background, read our first post ever.
Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 4:23AM Here's the video of our day on Lake Titicaca with the Uros. Go here to read the blog post of that day.
Bob & Brenna Redpath | 4 Comments | Email Article | Stumble, Digg, etc. | in Peru, Video | tagged Balsa Boat, Floating Reed Island, Lake Titicaca, Puno, Totora Reed, Uro, Uros, Video Lake Titicaca, Video Uro, reed island Thursday, July 8, 2010 at 12:49PM ;)
We landed in Cusco with a hotel booked for three days. Altitude adjustment claimed our first day, and the next day we spent wandering around with our new (super-helpful) friend Doris, looking for a place to live for the next few months. We found a place that day, but we couldn't move in until the end of the month. What to do? Hit the road again for a while. We took off for Lake Titicaca.
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We went to Titicaca to see the Uros and their islands. The Uros are a pre-Inkan people who live on floating islands that they make out of reeds. That's right - artificial islands made entirely - of layers - of reeds! Each island is about 30 yards across, and has 5 to 8 houses on it. It's mind-blowing, really. Imagine the skill and knowledge, passed down through generations, that it takes to
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