• Foto Number: PER-174

What could be more picturesque than a reed raft floating on Titicaca? For millennia, the Aymara people of the paradisiacal "Mediterranean" of the Andes have been fishing in their elegant reed boats in the sacred lake. The boats are made “by hand” by bundling the reeds with ichu strings. - 1969

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  South America Peru Puno Lake Titicaca Sierra Piruw Altiplano Uros Totora landscape ship Balsa