These are floating reedislands built in Lake Titicaca. They have been inhabited for hundreds of years. Everything is made of reed. The islands, the houses everything. As the reeds rot at the bottom new layers are added on top. The place is full of tourists. Nowadays the only income for them as the old trading system has collapsed with the intoduction of money and luxery items.
We visited the Colla and Inca burial sites in the afternoon. They consist of towers on hilltops. It is a wonderful scenery. You can tell the Colla ones are preinca as they are smaller and stacked. The Inca towers are taller and made of fabricated masonary blocks. On the way back we visited a farming comunity. They showed us around their farm. We where able to try their produce and check out the equipment they use to tend their fields. These haven`t changed muchover the past hundreds of years but are very practical.
