We visited Uros Islands, the floating islands on Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca is around 175km long and 60km wide and is shared with Bolivia. They began their floating villages in order to isolate themselves from the Collas and the Incas and they have stayed on the lake ever since. The main work nowadays for the locals is fishing and tourism. The islands are made from the Totora reeds, which are used for everything by the islanders, from the islands themselves, ...

There's no rest for the wicked! We were up early after our 4 day trek to catch our bus to Puno, south of Cusco. We arrived after a 7.5 hour bus journey through mountains, which was nice, and bumpy roads which wasn't! We set about booking trips and buses to our next destination, before browsing the markets for Alpaca hats and gloves - it's so cold here! We are at 3880 metres above sea level here, so it is bitterly cold in the morning and night but red hot in ...