The floating villages of Peru

Lake Titicaca is home to an archipelago made entirely out of dried reeds

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Andean actors.
(Image credit: (REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil)Using the thick totora reed that grows so plentifully at the edge of Lake Titicaca, the Uros people built this archipelago in the Andean highlands centuries a)

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Lauren Hansen
Lauren Hansen

Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.