“You can’t bring your wheelchair to Uros,” my guide told me. He pointed to a collapsible and slightly dilapidated manual wheelchair nearly a foot too wide for me. “Use this one.” I had just arrived in ...

RESEARCH CONCLUSIONS: New genetic research led by the Genographic Project consortium shows a distinctive ancestry for the Uros populations of Peru and Bolivia that predates the arrival of the Spanish ...

This story was originally published in our Nov/Dec 2023 issue as "Floating in the Clouds." Click here to subscribe to read more stories like this one. Stepping onto one of the Uros islands in southern ...

The multimedia version of the story can be seen here. A tiny Peruvian woman wakens long before the 5 a.m. sunrise, tiptoeing around her family's darkened hut to get dressed. She opens the door and ...

In November of 2006 I went on holiday to South America with Archers Direct and one of the countries visited was Peru. Peru was fascinating and as well as visiting Lima, Cuzco, and Machu Piccu we ...

PUNO, Peru—It seems wrong to end a series about the hidden wonders of South America with one of the continent's most celebrated tourist traps. And yet, as curiosities go, few are as singular, or as ...

Created by the indigenous Uros people as protection against attacks from the Incas, the Uros Islands are one of the world's most innovative feats of human engineering. In 2011, Peruvian-American ...

The Uros islands are a group of 70 man-made totora reed islands floating on Peru’s Lake Titicaca. Its inhabitants, the Uros tribe, pre-date Incan civilization and continue to hunt and fish the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lake Titicaca, located at an altitude of 3,800 metres in the Andes mountains between Peru and Bolivia, is the ...

New genetic research led by the Genographic Project consortium shows a distinctive ancestry for the Uros populations of Peru and Bolivia that predates the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores and may ...