Sunday, April 29, 2007  Lake Titicaca   Titicaca lake image
courtsey:  Lake Titicaca, a Lake on the Sky.  Un paralleled
altitude.  Remote, mysterious, immense,  Titicaca is an
extravaganza by name and by nature.  James Winchester.  World’s
highest navigable lake, four kilometers (12497 feet to be
precise) above from sea-level, in the laps of the great Andes
Mountains, shared by two nations (Peru and Bolivia), Titicaca is
a geological wonder, formed sixty million years back; from the
water deposited by 25 incoming rivers which carry the water from
melted glaciers of the Andes.  The puma and the rabbit.  It is
believed that the name derived from a variety of wild cats that
live on the rocky islands of the lake and swim to the mainland
during nights in search of food (titi = wild cat (a variety of
Puma) + karka = rock, there by meaning Rock- Puma). It may be a
strange coincidence that the shape of this giant lake (as
revealed by the satellite photographs) has resemblance to a Puma
chasing a rabbit. Old tribes wi