After Huacachina we went to a place called Puno, which borders one of the biggest, high altitude lakes in the world, Lake Titicaca (4000m). From there we took a tour to a floating island, Uros. The locals created this island by layering reeds ontop of each other, in layers and layers till they compress enough to form a solid mass, which then becoes the island. Unbelievably, people still live on these islands, and some straw huts even have radio and tv! Me and Tilly were taken into the president of the islands hut, and sat down on their tinyy floor with him, his wife and small daughter, (who was soo cute).
Our guide told us that these local people prefer not to go to hospital when they´re ill, but instead choose to go to an Andean Priest. The Priest gets the patient to lie on a bed, then places a ´cuy´ (guinea pig) on their chest for 25 minutes. When they remove the cuy, they take it to another room, cut it open and inside it is the disease of the patient........ Crazy times!!
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