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The Floating Islands of Lake

Titicaca

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The group of faculty I was with

toured lots of old ruins while

traveling through Peru, but I much

preferred the opportunities to actually

see how the people lived. So the

morning we were to go to the

Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca, I

was up early, ate breakfast, and then

sat down to reread the material about

the islands we had received. The

literature told about the inhabitants’

primitive lifestyle, and how, in the