Local residents welcome tourist visiters to Uros, the floating Islands in Peru


The Uru's islands are located at 3810 meters above sea level, and just five kilometers west from Puno port. The Uru use bundles of dried totora reeds to make reed boats (balsas), and to make the islands themselves


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Location: Uros Islands, Titicaca, Puno, Peru
Photo credit: © Nigel Greenstreet / Alamy / Afripics
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