lake titicaca

one of the man-made islands...can you tell that everything is made of dried reeds? pretty cool how people live on these islands...use the lake for water, reeds for most of the structures, solar energy for electricity, row to the city for other things. the islands are basically huge pieces of cork-like material made out of reed roots bound together, and our tour guide told us that if people have disagreements (ie, husbands and wives) and don't want to live on the same island anymore, they just cut off their piece of island and float away...

took a ride on a huge reed boat...

okay, so susan got us to take jumping pictures (grudgingly...while she has no problems doing them, we were always a bit more wary, especially with our tour group watching...oh, the shame...). anyways, she's much better at choreographing and executing her jumps than me or eunice (must be her years of practice)...but i definitely got good at capturing her jumps (see her blog). at any rate, here's one of mine...