Lake Titicaca (3827m), not only the largest lake in South America but it is also the largest in the world above 2000metres. Catching up with our other Aussie counterparts from the Machu Picchu trail we set off in a speed boat headed for the floating islands (Uros Isla-45 in total). These islands are very surreal, walking on them is very spongy and if you stand still you can actually see the island move. The local people on the islands have to replenish the reeds on which the island is made of once a week otherwise their island (and the village) would succumb to the Lake. These people have been living on these islands for 500 years and originally came to be after escaping the Spanish. After a further 3 hour relaxing journey under the sun on the boat we reached one of the largest islands in Lake Titicaca and traversed over it. This island unlike Uros, is a 'real' island. The 500 people who reside here live a rather simple life based on Socialist customs. They wear the same traditional clothes, pool all there money together and from what we observed live in harmony together. The following day saw us catch a bus over into the Bolivian side of the Lake to a town called Cochabamba (sounds very Peter Allen). Us you have probably guessed from this website we do not like to stay in the one spot for too long, so on arriving a midday we set off for a 17km hike along the banks of the lake to Isla del Sol. to be continued...