Tuesday, September 30, 2008

isla de uros

From Juli, we headed back to Puno.  We arrived around 7pm, had dinner and a few drinks and headed back to our hostel, Los Pinos Inn.  It was an adorable place and we slept like rocks...for 4 hours.  We had to be very bright and early for our boat ride to Islas de Uros!

Islas de Uros are floating islands made out of reeds.  There are many of these floating reed islands and people live on them!  There is even a church and a school on one.  They were truly incredible.


On a boat made entirely out of reeds!

The women that live on these islands are beasts.  You can never tell their age, but even the ones that look 75 years old are doing serious hard labor.




The kitchen.

Islas de Uros





This woman rowed us all the way across to another island.  
That's one powerful human in a bright pink skirt!

1 comment:

em said...

these people have STYLE, and I am not being sarcastic.