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Lake Titicaca

Currently there are about 40 floating villages found on the lake in the world’s highest altitude (3800 meters above sea level), which housed several hundred people, mostly descendants of the Uro people. Absolutely everything is made of reeds and roots tortora, a local plant that grows on the edge of Lake Titicaca. The biggest from [...]

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