Peru, puno (town) and the floating villages.Jun 28, 2008
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welcome to peru
trout farming in puno
more trout farming.
| bascally puno the town on the mainland is a dump. its realy dirty full of litter and smells, the town resembles a post war town that has been bombed. but we werent here for the town the floating village people on lake titicaca is what we stopped for. the islang people uproot the reeds from the ground and they float. then they tie all the pieces to gether and then they pile on heaps and heaps of reeds to make a platform. the make everything out of the reeds. everything they make out of the reeds last about a year. they have to keep putting reeds on the floor, the boats last about a year and so forth. they anchor the islands to the lake bottom. if they have a disagreement with the island they are tied to they will just simply cut the ropes and float away and anchor somewhere else. no one really knows why they chose to live on the lake. some say it was disease some say that they thought that the spanish would find it harder to find them when they came through. anyways it was a really cool place and great to see how these people live. |
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