the puzzling Lake Titicaca and Cuzco

06 to 09 March 2005

At Puno, is Lake Titicaca. It’s a monster-sized lake 3820 metres above sea level. And in the lake, floating islands made of reeds. On these islands, villages. Strange but true. Cuzco’s Inca-built stone-works buildings with blocks that resemble jigsaw puzzle pieces are truely amazingly strange too. How did these ancient people build all these without metal equipment?

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Totora reeds. My sketch of a reed boat and a Cuzco wall. And the emboss of a puzzle I bought.