It would have been a shame to have come all this way and not visited the floating islands so we stay an extra night. We arranged a boat trip over the lake from our hotel. Which was a bit confusing at first as we thought we had to get a bus first not sure why as our rooms looked straight out on to the lake. Another perfect blue sky day which after the snow was great and it was warm. 

With the blue sky the lake is beautiful can imagine not so when it is cold and grey. It takes us about 30 minutes to get to the islands. Surprisingly it is seems to be a number of communities all together each having their own island. We were taken to a small one with about 5 families. The reeds last a couple of weeks the islands are built up with layer after layer of reeds collected from the lake. The families earn their living by fishing, running boat hire like the one we can across on and handicraft of traditional embroidery. I can not imagine that this will be a community which will survive already they have mobile phones and TV in there straw houses. Whilst schooling is available on the islands there is a pull to the main land. Our guide told us of farming communities that you see along the lake side whose ancestors came from the islands. This in years to come will be a tourist attraction only not a real community.