Our last experience in Peru was visting the Uros Indians on their floating reed islands on Lake Titicaca. These people make their islands entirely of reeds from the lake. they also eat the reeds (apparently full of protein but we could only taste water and fibre) and make boats, homes, beds from these reeds and even have small fish farms on the islands.
Highlights of Peru -
- Pisco Sours
- Machu Picchu
- Women in tradional dress working hard carrying children, sticks, animals etc.. on their backs wrapped in the colourful blankets...
- amazing fruit that actually tastes like fruit
- silver shopping (can always find a shop)
- tooting cars
- chaotic drivers (we have had our taxi knock a man off his bike, run over a dog and almost run into another car full of young men which resulted in a short spat of road rage)
- dogs everywhere (some police with rottweillers with muzzles on, cute fluffy dogs with winter manmade coats, strays - but all friendly)
- Amazon anteater
- toilets (bano)... hmmmmmm. no flushing of loo paper... mmmmmmmmmm
Next stop.... Bolivia
