Puno and Lake Titicaca

Pick up time today 9.30, a much more civilised time. We are going on a trip to Uros island, one of the floating islands on Lake Titicaca. As it happens,our guide lives on one of the islands and we meet his mother and father during our visit. We are shown the rooms in which they live and sleep and since the recent introduction of a small solar panel on a pole they now have enough power to run a small TV and a few lights. This has also resulted in less fires, a constant danger. They even manage to grow a few veggies etc in the decomposing reeds. We are then rowed (1oar at the back) to another island on a reed built boat where we discover that todays reed boat has up to 1200 plastic drink bottles encased in the reeds. Thats progress I guess. Then onto the power boat and back to the mainland. Had dinner at a Lima pedestrian street restaurant with Nancy and Louanne, from Texas, whom we first met on the boat at Galapagos and have met several times since. And so to bed.