Kristy & Adam - South America Adventures

Hola from Lake Titicaca!
Hope you are all well. We have just returned from a two day trip to Lake Titicaca on the Peruvian side.
The first Island we visited was the Uros Floating Islands. It was really interesting to see how the Islanders live, their island is made purely of floating reeds, and their housing of dried reeds. They survivie by eating fish, birds and by eating the reeds on the Island. Supposably the reeds taste like banana`s, after a quick bite I don`t really agree!!!
The islands feel really strange to walk on you feel like you are bouncing around, As usual I was getting excited and taking loads of photos and I took a few steps in the wrong direction, and put my foot right through some reeds and ended up almost knee deep in water...WOOPS

The next Island we visited was Amanti where we stayed overnight. Our host family was a family of 7. They provided lunch and dinner for us and took us out to the towns fiesta for the evening where we dressed up in the traditional clothing and taught us traditional dancing.
The meals were cooking in a mud hut with a fire and some cast iron pots, at first we were a bit worried that we would get sick as the food was washed and cooked in tap water, but so far, touch wood we are ok! They cooked us traditional soups, vegetables and rice.
The fiesta was fun. Adam wore a brown poncho and special beanie they had knitted for us, and I wore about 3 layers of skirts, a traditional top and a special headress. Wait till you see the pics, what a classic. It was really cold so I had about 4 layers underneath the costume, so I look like I`m about 25 stone!!

Today we visited Taquile Island, it wasn`t as interesting as the others, we hiked for about an hour to reach the top of the island where we chilled out in the town square.
Tomorrow we are heading to Copacabana in Bolivia. So till then take care and keep in touch

Kristy & Adam