The People Who Live on Islands Made of Grass! 🇵🇪🛶🌊

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]At 3,810 m above sea level, Lake Titicaca sits so high in the Andes that altitude sickness is a genuine risk for visitors arriving unprepared. It is the highest navigable lake in the world and South America's largest freshwater lake by volume. But what makes it truly extraordinary is the Uros people who have built over 94 floating islands entirely from totora reeds harvested from the lake. They build their homes, their boats, and the very ground they stand on from the same plant.

[00:00:26]Communities that live on water they built themselves. National Geo Vision goes to the places where human ingenuity and nature are impossible to separate.

[00:00:33]Subscribe and float through Peru's most sacred wonder.