lake on the floating islands in Lake Titicaca, the name of the source with the local Indian language, might be" Puma's cliff" or" chief of the cliff" means.The meaning of the name Titicaca is unknown, but" Cougar Rock" (Rock of the Puma) or" lead Cliff" (Crag of Lead) various translations.Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru at the junction of the Keya Ao plateau, the Titicaca Lake is the highest altitude in South America, the largest freshwater lake, is one of the world's largest freshwater lake in the highest, or the world's altitudeship the highest navigable lake, is the second Great Lakes of South America (after Lake Maracaibo).It is located in Bolivia and Peru at the junction of Keya Ao plateau, known as the" Pearl of the plateau."
of the southern Lake Titicacathe birthplace of American Indian culture, Indians known as the" holy lake." Lake in the 41 islands, of which the Sun Island in Bolivia, Moon Island dotted lake, two islands of rock in brown, purple 2-color, lake and island colors, pavilions, extremely beautiful.Two on the island is rich in Indian relics.Moon BC, the ancient city site of the island, beautiful magnificent palaces, temples, pyramids and other stone buildings.In Peru, the island territory Esteves, a new tourist hotels, this can watch the lake, quite fun.There are many floating islands in the lake, the island is a local incense made of rushes and reeds tied.Typha haystack shop together, a great buoyancy, had built huts above, you can live a few families.Uro local Indian tribe to live in this floating island, fishing for a living.Their main means of transport is tied up with Hong rushes called" Tao Tao pull" the boat, about 2 meters long and can carry 4 to 5 individuals in the lake cruise.Thus, the Titicaca Lake observation about Uro people's lives, but also do not have a flavor of the tourism life.
lake abounds in tall reeds,prepare a local Indian reed reed boat called the" Tao Tao pull" , can only use about a year time to give up gradually saturated with water.Lake also woven by the Indians as a floating island with reeds, people living in the floating island on the perennial, fishing, or even grow vegetables in the above.Current reed boats and floating islands have become a good tourist spots to attract tourists.
still surviving ancient Ulu ethnic people (Uru) still live in the raft floating in the lake, the raft is dried cattail(in the marsh areas grow lush jungle like a reed-like sedge) like a straw-like shape made of.Ulu and other lake residents also use cattail to produce their famous Basa raft (balsa) ─ ─ from the lashing bundles of dried reeds made of a small raft, similar to the ancient Egyptian tomb paintings of the crescent on the boat sedges.
Ta Qiule the men are proudly wearing their organization's long stocking cap.Hat is stress: if the hat is all red, and then said he had been married, if the hat is red and white, then said he was single.Different colors represent different status.And Indian women in different continents, Ta Qiule the women never wear hats, they like to use a big scarf to cover the sun.Large scarf, fluffy pleated, walking in the picturesque island, Ta Qiule woman born a kind of beauty, the United States was heartbreaking.
of the fish-rich Lake Titicaca and the birds, fish the lake a large set of elk island waterfowl.Lake in the main, two medaka fish (medaka is a mountain〕 〔Orestias, a black belt or black stripes with a small fish) and a catfish (Silurus nose hair is〕 〔Trichomycterus).1939 and beyond, the introduction of the trout.There is also a big frog (Telmatobius Genus) habitat in the shallow lake areas, large, nearly a foot long.Lake trout and rich body of up to 30 cm of frogs, as over-fishing Retrospect and Prospect, the current government of Peru and Bolivia have developed laws prohibiting fishing trout.Typha growth around the lake and dense aquatic plants, fish in the water playing a vivid picture.Typha plexus in feeding ducks, disturbed by boats, Kaka Lo cried fly far.One of these called" Poko" duck, Liang Chi colorful head was dark green, while the cheeks are white.
living in the Titicaca basin, the Aymara (Aymara) is still in use during the previous Inca farming terraces on the method.They grow barley, quinoa (a small grain of amaranth can grow grass) and the introduction of the potato from the Altiplano.Of Lake Titicaca near the highest in the world 4,700 meters above sea level land ─ ─ (15,420 feet) of a large wheat field.
people boating in the lake, you can also see many live with three, five families of the" floating island." These float around the" island" is not the land, but by binding locally produced incense made of rushes.Hong rushes is a perennial herb, up to 2 meters long and thin leaves can be woven mats, cattail bag.Thick with incense rushes haystack shop, great buoyancy, Uro who had built on top of hut with Typha.Uro Hong rushes in the world, maintain their customs from generation to generation.Uro's main means of transport is tied up the whole root of the Typha small raft, about two meters long, can carry 4 to 5 individuals, with a long punt drive, Typha clusters of contaminated shallow waters in the middle.People living in the floating islands on the perennial, fishing, or even grow vegetables in the above.Thus, the Titicaca Lake to the observation of the lives of people familiar with the Uro, but also do not have a flavor of the tourism life.
Lake in many islands, Sun Islandislands dot the lake and the moon, the landscape was brown-purple 2-color, esteve Island is one of the larger islands in the lake.
it 2 high, middle low, sunken part of the uplift in the middle of a beautiful building - tourist hotels.From the bedroom hotel and restaurant overlooking the lake on the elegant environment, beautiful lake and island colors, pavilions, visitors stay in hotels, do have pillow on top of and embrace their Hongya wave of pleasure.
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