There are about 40 floating island on Lake Titicaca that are made of spongy totora reeds. There are churches, schools and clinics too. The Uros fled from the land to escape conflicts with the Collas and Incas. Nowadays, they have intermarried with the Aymaras, and speak the language.
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dee at clothcompany 36 months ago | reply
hi! included this photo in a blog post about making a quilt with woven strips that will represent a floating island... thank you! beautiful pix!!
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dee at clothcompany 36 months ago | reply
I linked to your stream and named you, BTW
Shivya Nath 21 months ago | reply
Beautiful :) Shared in on our community page for offbeat travel on Facebook - www.facebook.com/NotYourUsualTravel
jaymasood 20 months ago | reply
Thank you for sharing this under Creative Commons license.
I have used it in my Travelogue of an Armchair Traveller as well as in a similar post in Google Earth Community Forum and have given due credit to you.
The travelogue is a non-profit ads free blog which I have created as a pastime and I do not derive any monetary benefit from it or from Google Earth Community Forum which is also ads free.
CuriousJM