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Cuzco, Peru
24th September Puno
Early in the morning we took tuk tucks from our hotel to the port where we took a boat on Lake Titicaca to see the floating islands. We spent an hour on a floating island, home to 5 families, where they explained how the floating islands originated in the 1640's when the spaniards invaded. The local people were hiding in the reeves from the Spanish and realised if they layered the reeves they would float. They also dressed us in their traditi...