Uros Island is an island located in remote areas in Peru,
this island is famous for its diverse local community and also the residence of
huts or houses they occupy a unique and still very traditional. Views of the
island is still beautiful and unique look with different shades and atmosphere
of the place is spacious and filled with weeds. It's hard to live dibanyangkan
unique place like this, but local people feel comfortable and enjoy the place
where they live and feel comfortable in this island of Uros. Please see more
detail and clearer to the Uros islands example image below.
By tradition, the Incas originated in the area of Lake
Titicaca in the Andean Altiplano (plateau) on the Peru-Bolivia border, but —
like many tourists — we came to the lake to visit people with cultures that
predate even the Incas. It doesn’t hurt that the lake is special, too.
Titicaca, deemed the world’s highest-altitude (12,500 feet) navigable lake, is
a stunning deep blue surrounded by agricultural terraces that predate the Incas
and Andean mountains as high as 21,000 feet to the east, on the Bolivian side.
The site is good for cycling or hiking on the Andean plateau or kayaking or
sailing on the lake itself. We spent our time visiting the Uros people, who
live on islands in Titicaca’s shallows, islands that they build with the totora
reeds that grow in the lake, and the Taquile people, who live on a rocky island
of the same name and are renowned for centuries-old textiles traditions.
Uros reed islands.The Uros create floating islands by
layering totora reeds as if weaving, first east-west, then north-south, and so
forth until an island is about 13 feet deep. The reeds rot, so new are added at
the top every couple of weeks. The Uros people, now numbering 2,000, have lived
on their reed islands since before the Incas appeared. There are up to 60
islands in the lake currently. Strolling on real estate built with reeds can
feel like walking on a waterbed, but the island on our itinerary was firmer
than that. Maybe it had just gotten a new totora layer. We were free to roam
the small island, watching women cook or do their embroidery. I was invited
into one of the oh-so-tiny houses, also built of reeds. The Uros people own
motorized boats, but use reed boats for hunting seabirds, fishing — and hosting
tourists. We enjoyed our chance for a short and very smooth float on one such
bundle of reeds. The boatman pushed us forward using a single pole, touching
the lake’s bottom. The visit concluded with an informal market where women sold
embroidery and other items, another way that tourism helps support the Uros way
of life.
Uros reed islands
It was so interesting to see such different ways of living
to our own both on the reed islands and on Taquile island.
When we got back we tried to book a bus to Copacabana in
Bolivia but they were not leaving the following day due a suspected road block
near Copacabana. This is quite a frequent occurrence within Bolivia so it
wasn’t a huge scare. So another day in Puno! That night we had a really good
Pizza – thin crispy crust and not too much topping – in a restaurant called
Ekemos and then headed back for a good nights sleep after a long but enjoyable
day.The extra day in Puno basically allowed us to chill out, upload photos and
generally do nothing! We did walk down to the market which was great as you see
the women in their traditional dress of man-sized skirts and bowler hats. We
also got to enjoy more than rotisserie chicken as well!
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