Los Uros - floting islands in the lake

From Puno, where I stayed for 2 days, I visited the famous Uros people. They live on artificially built islands, which float in the lake. Historically they are very peaceful people I am told and moved to the islands to escape from fights and pressures from different other ethnic groups.

Today unfortunately they are overrun by the tourists and their primary (if not their only) source of revenue is tourism.

Each boat load full of tourists is taken to a different island and family and is shown their traditional way of life. The introduction about their life and how the islands are built of reed is very interesting. But after that it is time to sit down with the ladies and they intend on selling their products and they are very difficult to resist! At the end of the tour they proudly tell us that they are the second most important tourist destination in Peru after Machu Picchu!