Our Big Lake Titicaca Adventure

Anna:

We went to the floating islands.  They are made out of reeds and reed roots.  Their taxis are boats.  The children ride in them to their school.  Their boats are also made out of reeds.  The reeds are bouncy.  On most of the islands, they have a big tower made out of reeds that you can stand on and look out over all the little islands.  It's like a big city except with a lot of tiny islands.  There are usually up to 5 families on each island and something around 20 people on each island.  Each island has a president.  Then we went to another island.  This one wasn't made of reeds.  We did a hike and it was a storm while we hiked.  There was lightening but luckily no rain and no lightening hit anybody.  We stayed with a family.  They have soups for dinner and lunch.  Then cooked dough with sugar on top for breakfast.  The cooked dough with sugar is AWESOME!!!  Then we went to another island and did another hike. We had lunch there.  We went to a restaurant.  I had trout with, it said a salad but it was really a tiny, tiny bit of vegetables.  No lettuce.  The trout was from the highest navigable lake in the world!  Lake Titicaca!  Then we went back to Puno.

There are 70 artificial floating islands in Lake Titicaca.

Cole tried the base of the reeds.  It is very mild tasting and is known as the banana of the islands.

These boats are called the "Mercedes-Benz" of the islands.

Anna helped row the boat.

Anna hiked with some local girls on the island.

Our our way to the top of Papamancha.

Anna and Christy at the top of the island.  We had to use headlamps on the way down due to the darkness.

Our boat for our tour of Lake Titicaca.  It was a three hour ride from the nearest city (Puno) to the islands.

Anna and her trout.