The Fantastic Floating Islands of Titicaca

The Uros people of Lake Titicaca have a unique way of life - they build their own islands, float them on the lake and then proceed to live on them. Here is a glimpse of their world, where their homemade “islands” are truly “in the stream”.

This small tribe of South American indigenous retain a great deal of a culture that goes back millennia and one whose unique domestic arrangements stem from that age old fear - the dread of suppression by other, stronger and more populous peoples.

Lake Titicaca itself affords a deal of protection.  Isolated and over three thousand meters above sea level, the lake itself offers - simply by its relative isolation (even in modern day Peru) - some protection from the unwanted attentions of others. 

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