Yes, but as I remember it, it’s not exclusive to that lake.
Yes, but as I remember it, it’s not exclusive to that lake.
I don’t know much honestly, I know of them because of some friends living in Peru.
You can look up Uru (or Uro) people.
Basically it was their take on the castle and moat.
The islands are made of some sort of cane, and have to be maintained regularly, it’s very labor intensive.
It’s one of the many cultures there that are at a crossroads, since they have to choose a way between their traditional lifestyle and the comfort of modernity. Knowing that tourism can bring them an order of magnitude more money that what they can make locally, at the risk of becoming actors, maybe.
Some Peruvian indigenous people actually live on man made floating islands (on lakes, not at sea).
They’ll stop anything out of the ordinary.
It was murder. He stood against the hoarders, and they got his head.