Pete Foley
Dream Come True
Growing up, Lake Titicaca was a place synonymous with exotic, adventurous travel, and certainly somewhere I never dreamed of visiting. I guess dreams can come true. This is Tequila island, a mere 540 step climb at 12,500 feet, which gets the heart pumping! The improbably saturated colors are real, this is straight out of the camera (just reduced and watermarked).
Anthropologically speaking, Tequila Island is fascinating. The men here take great pride in their knitting skills (more photos to follow), and create, among other things, wedding dresses for their brides. They also produce some of the best quality crafts in Peru. The women wear traditional, brightly colored, multilayered skirts. However, the fiancee of our guide, who wore traditional clothing in front of parents and relatives on the island, traveled back to Puna with us, and sneaked off into the bathroom on the boat to change into jeans and T-shirt just before we landed. I wonder how much of the traditional lifestyle will survive the waves of tourism that are now hitting the island?
Dream Come True
Growing up, Lake Titicaca was a place synonymous with exotic, adventurous travel, and certainly somewhere I never dreamed of visiting. I guess dreams can come true. This is Tequila island, a mere 540 step climb at 12,500 feet, which gets the heart pumping! The improbably saturated colors are real, this is straight out of the camera (just reduced and watermarked).
Anthropologically speaking, Tequila Island is fascinating. The men here take great pride in their knitting skills (more photos to follow), and create, among other things, wedding dresses for their brides. They also produce some of the best quality crafts in Peru. The women wear traditional, brightly colored, multilayered skirts. However, the fiancee of our guide, who wore traditional clothing in front of parents and relatives on the island, traveled back to Puna with us, and sneaked off into the bathroom on the boat to change into jeans and T-shirt just before we landed. I wonder how much of the traditional lifestyle will survive the waves of tourism that are now hitting the island?