Day 10 Lake Titicaca (Part 1 of 2)

I took some photos this morning from the rooftop of the hotel.. Nice view!  At 9;00 I was picked up for today’s tour.  Here is the description:  “A transportation service will pick you up from your hotel and will take you to the Chucuito town after a stop in Chimú, where you can watch the totora weaving used to build the traditional rafts. You will arrive in Chucuito in approximately thirty minutes. Located at 18 kilometers from Puno city, it is one of the Aymara-speaking towns on the way to the border with Bolivia. It was a tax collection center and it currently has colonial churches, mansions and streets of cobble stone. You will visit all of them, as well as the Fertility Temple, a local trout farm and the Scenic Viewpoint.”  The views along the way were impressive as were the amazing uses they have for the reeds, they weave them into amazing things.  The house with the huge boat design was one of my favorites.  Of course tomorrow, the highlight will be the floating islands or Uros, made from woven reeds.  The fertility temple had more phalanxes than I have ever seen in one place…  too bad they didn’t have a magnet.  They were selling lots of stone carvings, I declined.  This is part one of my day, part 2 will depend on how much battery life I have on my laptop…