Floating Islands

Floating Islands
Puno, Peru (PE)
The Uros are a pre-Incan people who live on forty-two self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca Puno, Peru and Bolivia.

The Uros use bundles of dried totora reeds to make reed boats (balsas mats), and to make the islands themselves.
The Uros are a pre-Incan people who live on forty-two self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca Puno, Peru and Bolivia.

The Uros use bundles of dried totora reeds to make reed boats (balsas mats), and to make the islands themselves.
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Links: en.wikipedia.org
By: Tyco

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kjfitz
@ 2012-03-21 09:12:37
No way. That's really cool. Great post.
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Tyco
@ 2012-03-21 09:44:04
Means a great deal to impress you. Thanks.

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