Our adventure continues in our 4th country, Peru! We hug lake titicaca around the corners and go to our first stop at Puno where there are some man made reed islands and some other fun things to do.
Puno
Not much to say about Puno itself other than yet again I drove right through the middle of the market street. Our first camping situation was at a hostel where I could not fit Hubi in the entrance so we went to camp at a fancy hotel for the night.
A walk around town, taking care of business and trying to find a boat museum that we never found and then we are on our way for some reed island action.
Uros Islands
We get a nice private tour from Yordy and Dina out to their own reed island. Billion times better than the mass tourism boats we saw where 100 people go to an island at once. Thought the thing would sink.
Our first stop wasn’t actually Yordy’s island, but the one island that was modified to contain a football field. Small, short and the ground completely uneven and painful, so basically Freiburg. However this stopped all players from taking dives, so finally no crybabies. They have enough people living on the reed islands that they actually have a league. All the while VfB can’t beat Bielefeld, a town that doesn’t even exist.
Later we make it to Yordy’s island where he and 2-3 other families live. Yordy is the president of his island and he invited us into the White House. Quite nice. Taught us how the island are made, offered us a boat ride in a huge reed monstrosity (did it actually the next day) and explained us the culture and everything else. Good times!
You can spend the night on the island but my stomach was still not on the titi side of titicaca so we wild camped at a lovely mirador looking over the reed islands.
Next morning we hooked back up with Yordy for him to hitch us a ride over to another boat for another island tour. Got a free ride in the giant reed tourist boat and got to hang out in his house while a mass tourism group visited the island. Private tour was cheaper I think and waaaaaay better.
Got on another boat with around 15 people, another 3 hour ride with the boat traveling at idle to the other island for a 1 hour walk and lunch, then 3 hour ride back. I have opinions.
Then Yordy gave us a ride back, another night wild camping and next morning we head off to the deepest canyon in the world (so they say)
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Great story!! 😄
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How are the reed islands made?
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The saw off chunks of the floating peat and tie them together with sticks and rope till they eventually grow together. Then they chop down a ton of reed and pile it up on layers. They have to add new layers every 2 weeks. I think there were about 2 meters of reed under us, but if you pulled back just a little bit, there was water there. So lots of reed, and even more under the houses.
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