Hi Everyone,

It's been an age since I have done a Lordnigel's Travels so I thought... why not :). 

So the other night I had a dream about my trip to Peru and it reminded me of Lake Titicaca - so I dug around and found some photos and thought -why not share on Steemit.

Lake Titicaca is the largest lake in South America, it's located on top the Andes - this place is really high above sea level. Often referred to as the  "highest navigable lake" in the world it has a surface elevation of 3,812 metres (12,507 ft) 

Surrounding the lake is a mixture of modern houses and not so modern villages. As per usual I can't help but connect with some of the locals to find out whats going down. 

Look at this hand woven stuff, how many hours must they spend doing this? how amazing!!

The babies go everywhere with the women of the village, if its out selling wares or working the fields all day long, the babies go as well - this is the way in this part of the world.

Sometimes the language barrier is a bit of an issue with some of my trips, but the universal communication of dance seems to work where ever I go. In this case I have no idea why we were suddenly dancing? but hey what a fun way to say hello...

The lake itself is very beautiful, but talking to some of the local guides there is a tough price to pay for living at this altitude for extended periods;namely most people die of heart attacks by the time they are approx 40-50 years of age...they don't print this on the tourist brochure!.

Anyways back to the lake, it's really, really big and as such not something to take an easy picture of so I struggled to find any good ones..Still, here are a few shots to give people a feel (take note of the reeds).

Whats most interesting about Lake Titicaca is the floating village made nearly completely out of the Lake reeds. Yep!, the people live on a ''people made'' floating island made of reeds that sits in the middle of the lake...weird :)

To visit the island you take a boat out (also made of reeds) and are given quite the welcome. They only allow so many tourists a day as the island is constantly breaking down/eroding, the villagers are constantly pulling out more reeds and rebuilding the island, including their houses..Basically every day, part of the island dissipates.

They really are lovely people, they love to sing and dance and really make visitors feel extra welcome.

All the best - I hope you enjoyed the latest LordNigels Travels. If there is interest maybe I'll do some more.

Cheers and happy travels.

 Note: All photos are original and taken on my old Nikon camera. 

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