Peru - Day Six

This day we sailed on Lake Titicaca to these little artificial reed islands. People have been living there for centuries now on these teeny tiny islands made of reeds, in huts made of reeds, sleeping on mattresses made of reeds, sailing in boats made of reeds, and sometimes even eating - you guessed it - reeds. We got to try some. It didn't taste like much.

The weird thing is, these people have to sail to some other part of the lake to use the bathroom, but when we went inside one of the huts, they had a TV that ran on solar power. So weird. Armando, one of the people who lived in the hut, was a student at the university. He commuted to the mainland every day for class, and he was studying tourism. "Why do you live here?" we asked. "Because it's our tradition. My family lives here, and I want to live with my family," he answered. Wow. That's a pretty good answer.