Hola hola! So after an overnight bus journey from Cusco, we arrived in Puno in the early hours of the day. We nearly got onto the wrong bus as we were trying to pick a bus that most appealed to us! However, in the end we were directed to the right one. To be honest, the bus ride was pretty comfortable with the seats reclining to almost 180 degrees and the heating on.
We met our tour guide, Moses, and the rest of our group, and got onto a boat to the Uros islands on Lake Titicaca. Moses was quite the comical tour guide with lots of random facts and figures! Eg lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world, meaning the highest lake a boat can sail on. It's 3400m above sea level, compared to London which is only 24m above sea level and where Saadia lives which is approx 300m. Funnily enough Saadia suffered from altitude sickness more than me!
The Uros islands are floating islands made from totora, which are reeds that grow abundantly in the lake. The inhabitants have built huts and boats from this. We had the opportunity to ride on one of these boats, for 10 sol which helps towards there living costs. The tortura are also edible and the inhabitants have to remember to replenish the layers of the tortura on the island from the top as the bottom layer tends to rot.
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