Bolivia - Brazil

Lake Titicaca - The world highest navigable lake... Lake Titicaca is between Bolivia 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 over the lake and it disappears into the semi unknown high deserts of Bolivia. The people who live around the lake are mainly Aymara Indians, the survivors of 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 Inca. Today, Aymara are farmers or fishermen; they speak their native language and the women particularly dress in a colourful manner. they even wear bowler hats on ocassions. Some of the natives are excellent boatbuilders and by using the tall reed from the lake they construct simple balsas. Their home also are made from reeds and they live on fish and wild birds. Some keep pigs and chicken and live the life of farm islanders. The way-of-life they have adopted is one of 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

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