ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY, THE WORK OF PEPPER K. ETTERS

South America: Peru

Peruvian Lake Titicaca is home to several small communities long isolated from the rest of the world. Each island, though sharing similar cultural roots, varies wildly as the different communities have evolved in unique ways over the years. Such varied culture contained in such a small area makes this portion of Peru an interesting destination.
A local man plays a panpipe, one of the key instruments in the folk music of the Altiplano Plateau.
  
A elderly gentleman relaxes in the afternoon on Isla Amantani, one of several high islands in Lake Titicaca.
  
A man harvests reeds on Lago Titicaca. The reeds are the life blood of the Uros vilagers and are used for numerous things from making boats, food and even construction of the unique floating islands upon which they live.
     
  
A young girl sits in the doorway of her reed house on a floating island of Lake Titicaca.
  
An old woman relaxes on Lake Titicaca on Isla Amantani.
   
A group of boats floats calmly in a small harbor of Lake Titicaca's Isla Amantani.
     
  
An elderly inhabitant of the floating Uros islands grinds flour for the days meal.