Isla Taquile, Lake Titicaca, Peru - Deeper into the Lake

Shades of Italy

I slept under so many heavy blankets that my hips began to hurt and I was forced to shed two of them in the middle of the night.  Dodo got up to pee at 2am and had to cross our little island to the bathroom building.  She said she'd never seen stars like that - they filled the sky.  After breakfast we were to take a tour of Uros and then head deeper into the lake to Taquile Island.

Uros, Lake Titcaca, Peru - The Floating Hotel

Sleeping and Eating with the Uros
When we got off the bus, Victor, our taxi driver was there to take us to the dock.  Not the main dock with the big boats, but a sleepier one with smaller boats.  We were on our way out into the lake to stay on a small floating island, one family big.  The Uros are a people who pre-date the Incas, speak Aymara as their main language and for some reason, decided to live on floating islands in lake Titicaca.  In addition to their usual trades of fishing and hunting, some of the families invite tourists to stay with them on their small islands.