3980m This morning was an earlier start as we were being picked up and taken by speed boat to Uros and Taquile islands. The Uros are descendants of a pre-Incan tribe who fled their more warlike neighbours onto the lake and built floating islands from reeds. Unfortunately we were formed as several groups, so about 30 in total. We set off for Uros first and when we landed on the reed island we were met by the president of the year and given a history of the people...

3800m Well, I think we just had another TISA moment (This Is South America) as last night we had a massive thunderstorm and hail. Big bolts of lightning and obviously one of them took out the power. As we are staying at an ecolodge the bathroom has a Perspex roof and the sound of hail hitting it kept us all awake for over an hour. In the morning a solid cold drizzle had set it with us all getting somewhat damp on the way to breakfast. The weather forecast was su...