The Uros are an indigenous people who are lived on Floating Islands on Lake Titicaca. Floating islands is a common natural phenomenon that is found in many parts of the world. These islands are made and re-made from the Totora reeds which provide home, sustenance and transportation for their residents. The Uros people build their own artificial island from reed. Every month they have to add an extra layer of reed on top. Depending on the size of the island, three to ten Uros families live on each of them.

The best known islands on the lake are the floating reed islands which are maintained by adding fresh reeds to the surface even as the ones on the bottom decompose. The Uros residents of the islands made their homes from the reeds. They also used the reeds for everything like beds, benches, and boats. The Uros people continue living by fishing, weaving and now, tourism. They catch fish for themselves and to sell on the mainland and they also catch shore birds and ducks for eggs and food.

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Floating artificial islands are generally made by bundled of reeds, and the best known examples are those of the Uros people of Lake Titicaca, Peru, who build their villages upon what are in effect huge rafts of bundled totora reeds.

The reeds are harvested and used for many things including houses, reed boats and sails in daily use on the lake. The Uros family made their house Layers from sugar cane, called tortora which mixed with black and the roots of plants, and the island naturally floats on water.

Its beautiful place like a real paradise on the earth. Floating islands are generally found on marshlands, lakes, and similar wetland locations.

The ground you see here is made by Totora reeds. The waste is absorbed by the tortora reeds and helps towards the next healthy crop!                                                          

The reeds themselves are malleable enough to dry out, bundle and shape in to extraordinary boats which float quite nicely. The Uros people build their own islands from reed. This picture made of reeds with a dragon head mounted in front. It's looking beautiful and extraordinary.

This boats are looked like a dragon which was also made out of the reeds and cruised over to a neighboring floating island.The reeds are collected and used for many things including houses, reed boats and sails in daily use on the lake.

Many of them use solar panels for their reed homes to run television sets and other electronic appliances. The islands are anchored in place by ropes attached to wooden poles driven into the bottom of the lake.

The islands themselves must be several meters thick in order to support the homes and associated buildings of the Uros. However, at some point before recorded history a member of the Uros had the bright idea to do something extraordinary with the reeds that grow prolifically along the banks of the lake.

The Uros people harvested the reeds in the shallows of the lake, bundled them together tightly and built floating island platforms complete with reed houses and canoes.

The Uros people's house made by reeds and sugar cane. Many Uros family have a room in their home which is dedicated to tourist usage and guests are welcome to stay overnight.

The Uros people create the dead reeds break away from the base new reeds are replaced on the surface, which are conveniently collected from the edges of Lake Titicaca. Every month, a man involved in that replaces the old sgnivshy because of contact with the water layer to a new, also wreathed of the cane.

This beautiful boat made by reeds. The Uros people also must accommodate the large amounts of curious tourists who are drawn to these forty or so islands to observe this unique way of life. To visitors to Lake Titicaca, a boat trip to the floating islands, and a exclusive tourist destination, is a must.