Rising early again, we caught 3 buses which took the entire day to arrive in Puno.
The following day, the tour continued on a boat out to the floating islands of Uros on Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicac is the highest navigable lake in the world at 3820m. The islands are built from layers of totora reeds that grow in the shallows of the lake. As the reeds closest to the water rot, new layers are added on top. As you can imagine, we were all a little cautious about stepping off the boat onto the floating islands. However, it was surprisingly sturdy. The Uros orginally built the floating islands to isolate themselves from rival tribes. Nowdays people live on them to avoid tax as the government doesn't consider it to be land.
We then spent 3 hours on a boat bound for a real island, called Taquile Island. This was somewhat of a waste of time as we only went for a short trek and had lunch before taking another 3 hours to return to Puno.
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