The floating islands are made of large chunks of reed roots that rise off the lake bottom during the rainy season and are then cut into 20 by 60 foot pieces, towed many miles across the lake where they are sewn and anchored together. It take about 2 weeks for each piece.
Typical Uros home; the conal roof home is a kitchen during the rainy season and reed storage during the dry season.
The traditional reed boat; the Uros currently fill the boats with hundreds of plastic bottles left behind by tourists to help the boats float and last longer by resisting rot.
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