Lake Titicaca -The world highest navigable Lake : Lake Titicaca is between Bolivis and Peru, 12,300 feet up in the Andes of South America. It is over 100 miles long and 60 wide and though almost like an inland sea, the water is fresh and comes from many small rivers flowing from the surrounding mountainside. Just one river flows out of the Lake and it disappears in to the semi unknown high deserts of Bolivis. The people who live around lake are mainly Aymara Indians, the survivors of an an ancient civilisation that lived in the region long before the Spanish Conquistadors arrived, and who never succumbed totally to the dominating armies of the Incs. Today, the Aymara are farmers or fishermen; they speak native languages and the omen particularly dress in a colourful manner. They even wear bowler hats on occasion. Some of the natives are excellent boat builders and by using the tall reed from the lake they construct simple balsas. their home also are made from reeds and they live on is and wild birds. Some keep pigs and chicken and live the life of farm islanders. The way-of life they have adopted is one f seclusion which began at a time when different groups of people in the region were at war, and some decided to seek refuge in the reeds.
Photo measures 10.25 x 8 inches.
Photo is dated --0000.
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