Lake Titicaca

View of the lake from our room early Thursday morning

   After breakfast, we left port on reed boats and spent the morning visiting a couple of native villages on floating islands inhabited by the Uros Indians.

 The islands are made of reeds and rebuilt on a continuing basis,.  

  We were treated to stories about life on the islands

 Afterwards one of our hosts took us into her hut and had us dress up.

View from atop the fish

 Traveling between villages

 They put us to work!

 The next stop was a Mormon village

We joined them in their chapel where we were treated to one of their favorite hymns.

Afterwards we left the village and headed across to Puno.

 Past lots of reeds.  Here's a native with a load to take back to his island.  The reeds deteriorate in the water, so they continually add new reeds to the top.

 Clear of the reeds heading for Puno

 On the wharf

 Cathedral

 View from above the city

I think this is where we went down a concrete slide together, and J. Lynn dropped on her back, with me partly on top, and ended up with a compression fracture.  Hurting thereafter.  Otherwise, it was a very nice day!