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PERU, 1996. My tour took me to the floating islands of the Uros people, in Puno, on Lake Titicaca. The islands are man-made, built with dozens of layers of totora, an aquatic plant, and can be moved around, which is why they are also called floating islands. More families live on every single island, and in addition to ongoing maintenance, the sale of souvenirs to tourists has become a source of livelihood.
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Oh have you been there???! I watched a documentary about this village... how they lived there and how they had to take care of the materials because they needed to control in order to replace some parts when it was wasted. Amazing!
This is how it is, when some parts of the island begin to sink, they are replaced by new plants and the islet thus always remains functional.
What if there's a big wave it can be move from other place by it? Or is it in a lake? So they don't have a permanent address? Hehehe just curious.
I am in a large lake, one of the largest in Latin America. They can move the whole island just like a barge, but I don't remember why they do it
Oh a lake. I can't imagine it being in an ocean. It will always move because of the waves. It's amazing how they built that island and it can be move.
Wow this is very beautiful place In this picture, the scene of rural Bengal has come to light. Seeing that, my mind became better