The man-made floating islets, which are home to the ... as long as there is totora growing at Lake Titicaca, the islands' rooted foundation will stay the same. Heritage Architecture is a BBC ...

Explore the fascinating lifestyle of the Uros tribe on Lake Titicaca, Peru, who inhabit moveable floating islands crafted from dried reeds. With over 500 residents residing on roughly 70 human ...

Hundreds of miles south of Peru’s famous Machu Picchu ruins, dozens of artificial islands pepper the surface of Lake Titicaca, situated along the border of Peru and Bolivia. The veritable floating ...

The Uros, a pre-Incan people in Peru, reside on artificial islands built out of totora reeds in Lake Titicaca ... of the reason tourists flock to the floating islands — or "Islas Flotantes ...

There is something thrilling about the thought of Lake Titicaca – a vast body of ... First stop is Amanecer, one of 50 or so floating islands inhabited by the Uros ethnic group.

In the past, humans have created floating islands as a means of protection, such as the floating villages of Lake Titicaca that were created by the Indigenous Uros people to evade attacks from the ...

Besides the mystical ruins of Machu Picchu, tourists to Peru are often drawn to the floating islands of Puno, a man-made archipelago in Lake Titicaca with a thousand year history. They are impressive.

The biggest draw of Lake Titicaca is the floating reed islands. Originally constructed as a means to avoid paying taxes, the 120 islands have become a way of life for their 2,500 inhabitants.