Uros (The floating islands)

The floating islands are man-made, created from cane, or cane-brake (totora), pulled away from the bottom of the lake by the movement of the waters. Walking on the 'ground' surface was very strange, essentially walking on reeds. Even the huts and most of the boats are made of cane. The boats are used for fishing as well as for collecting cane when it's needed for restoring the islands as the lower levels rot away in the salt water.

The people who live here are called the Uros and neither the Aymara Indians nor the Incans were ever able to control them. Obviously pretty independent, floating wherever they feel, they spend most of their lives in this strange, mobile world.