Uros Totora Canoe

On our trip we went to Uros, incredible floating islands in the middle of the lake. Uros refers to a group of floating islands, as well as to the pre-Inca people who fashioned them, around 3,000 of whose descendants still inhabit and maintain the islands. The islets are made of totora reeds, which grow in the lake. The residents use the reeds to create the conditions that ensure the islands stay afloat. They also make canoes made of totora reeds, like the one you can see in this drawing.

It was amazing to go to those islands because I never knew such a thing existed and I was deeply impressed by it.