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Lake Titicaca is known for the floating islands which are inhabited by the Uros people
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The islands are made up of layers of reed which are newly stacked on the top each month as the lower layers slowly rot away
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Beautiful Lake Titicaca at 12,566ft ASL
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Dragon boats made of reed are used to get around from island to island
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Indigenous woman with child
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Little girl playing and enjoying the boat ride with us
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Jen on one of the floating islands. Walking on the island is actually a bit weird as it is somewhat "squishy"
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We took a boat from Puno to get to the floating islands
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Sillustani, near Puno, consists of several funerary towers, to bury the nobility of the Colla tribe, the people who inhabited the Lake Titicaca area.
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Beautiful cloud formations over Lake Umayo
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The funerary towers were called Chullpas which can can be as high as 35 feet. They always had an opening on the East side near the base, the size of a person.
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Lake Umayo is a small lake to the west of Lake Titicaca
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Walking amongst the ruins with several chullpas in the background
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Jonathan and Jen inside an unfinished chullpa foundation