Travelers Advantage

Set foot on the Titicaca Lake, Peru on the floating Island, you will feel the sky is so close.

Foot loose Reed Po, from time to time a groan, telling in this multiplied many hundreds of years of Ulu, Nova Scotia's story. Lake sparkling, dressed in colorful costumes of indigenous, is the island's most vivid scenes.

The world's highest freshwater Lake Titicaca Lake

In Peru and Bolivia, with the world's highest freshwater Lake Titicaca Lake.

3812 m above sea level, creating a local plateau black skin. 600 years ago, to escape from Spain and Portugal's colonial rule, Urus people came to the Reedy Lake, Lake, became the owner here.

In the beginning of the Ulu, Nova Scotia, reeds, straw into thick Reed mat and Po, then into the grass on board ship.

Later, they took a few bars, and dozens of grass boat together, become more stable residence, floating island that have emerged. Subsequently, they also make a compact housing. Now, the floating islands on the Lake more than 60, small basketball court so big, big has a post office, school and other public facilities.

Titicaca Lake scenery unique

Today's floating Island residents, hungry, eat the root part of the Reed; fresh and thirsty, drink wine with Reed wine of roots.

Even the children's snacks, but also by a special perfume made of reeds. If falls flow blood, a Reed pollen, blood ceased. In fact, Ulu, Nova Scotia to boating in just 10 minutes from the border city of Puno purchase supplies, but they prefer a self-sufficient life. Here's the children who learn to fish, land. Every day, similar housing residents elect a Cook, and the rest go out fishing, weaving, etc. Children grow up, it can only be tolerated, and they can only speak their own language.

There are over 40 floating island for tour

On the island to wear waterproof shoes 　

In recent years, the Government of Peru to develop tourism, floating islands of the mysterious life gradually opened to the outside world.

Lake 40 multiple floating island for tour, maximum of six kilometres long.

The people at the beginning of the floating Island, can't bear to hear there was shaky feeling.

Each step will have minor foot fall, you can't beat a foot to island face hit the leak. Local guides visitors to repeatedly remind the floating Island to wear good shoes waterproof function, because you each step, there is a Lake on the island surface infiltration.

Floating island every 3 months to rebuild once.

Every two weeks, the island shall be covered with new Reed, when following the more thick Reed accumulated, hit the Lake, the island was abandoned, redo a new island. To visit the floating islands, must not miss Reed grass boat tour of the production process. It is said that grass weaving technology generation ship through word of mouth. Because Titicaca in indigenous languages is Leopard, so the bow tie into Leopard heads up. Just one hour, one skilled workers can prepare grass bow. Local men, every day, in addition to the fisherman, the remaining time is used for shipbuilding, Reed because this boat can only be used for six months or so.

The Lake has a lot of Reed room

The original ecological island do not need electricity 　

It's late, visitors may live in Ulu, Nova Scotia series Reed room.

Spends $ 20, you can rent a room. The House has two beds, each bed has a blankets be and a candle, not on the island is so original. Of course, separate toilet and shower and more.

Reed wall not wind, cold air is going to have to bring their own sleeping bags.

To live in advanced also has a five-star hotel has dominated to a peninsula on the Lake. Simple guide will advise on the island visitors, we do not give children money there, because we don't want our children to become lazy, we want them to become citizens.