Who knew you could do so much with one plant? Weave it, eat it, sail it, live on it – the inhabitants of highland Peru certainly know what to do with the mighty reed.
Swimming around in the middle of Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable lake, are a cluster of floating islands made entirely of, you guessed it, reeds.
Ride on a reed canoe, cook with reed utensils, step into reed houses and sleep on reed beds to see how the Uros people live by this powerful tool. My favourite? The reed swimming pool: shallow wells within the island structure for the kids’ swimming lessons (a must if you live on top of water)!
Over a hundred Uros live on the lake; their ancestors built the first reed refuges to escape violent Aymara tribes. Now maintained purely as a tourist attraction, the islands still make a unique trip.
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