Take a trip to the Uros Islands! The Uros are pre-Incan people who live on over 50 self-fashioned floating islands on Lake Titicaca, Peru. The Uros use bundles of dried totora reeds pilled on floating mud root-balls to make the islands themselves! As more root-balls stacked with reeds are tied together, the floating islands can get up to 23 meters in width and 60 meters in length. These larger islands house about ten families. The smaller ones are only about 30 meters in length and house only two or three families.
The Uros also use the totora reeds to make reed boats you could take a ride on. Enjoy a kayaking tour to visit this incredible creation that is the Uros Island and take boat rides to neighbor islands on the lake. Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable waterbody globally and the largest lake in South America. The wildlife here and surrounding the Uros Islands include numerous water birds and 530 aquatic species.
Take a tour around the islands, see how these unique people live their lives, and spend a night immersed in an incredible culture!
