Colourful Uros Islands, Lake Titicaka, peru

Posted in Globe Treking by Ben Brown Photography on July 29, 2013

Lake Titicaca is a lake in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia. By volume of water, it is the largest lake in South America

Titicaca is notable for a population of people who live on the Uros, a group of 44 or so artificial islands made of floating reeds (totora, a reed that abounds in the shallows of the lake).  

These islands have become a major tourist attraction for Peru, drawing excursions from the lakeside city of Puno.   Their original purpose was defensive, and they could be moved if a threat arose.   Many of the islands contain watchtowers largely constructed of reeds.