Peru's Floating Islands
By Caroline
If you ride in a boat about thirty minutes away from mainland over Lake Titicaca you start to see what look like hay stacks with houses on them. That morning we had woken up at 5:30 and got in a car to go to the boat that would take us out on Lake Titicaca to the Uros islands.
These islands are also called the reed islands because they are entirely made out of reeds that grow around the area. I got out first and stepped on the reeds sure that they would sink but it was stable and sort of bouncy. The houses on the island were simple and made of reeds and mud.
There were only a few people living on each island. It seemed weird to imagine that the kids living on these islands have to take a boat to school everyday. It was beautiful seeing the floating islands out on the highest lake in the world.
