At over 12,000 feet, Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water in the world.  It's shores have been inhabited for thousands of years by the different indigenous people of the Andes.  To these people, the lake is holy.   It is where man and woman were created and where their gods make their home.   Walking around the lake, it is easy to believe that things have not changed much in the last 500 years.  The llama is still the main beast of burden for many people and   people still farm the shoreline using ancient methods.  This photo was taken outside the town of Copacaban, Bolivia.  Note the dress of the indigenous women.   They tend to wear many layers of clothes, sometimes as many as six skirts at a time. This is because the difference in temperature between the sun and the shade at this altitude can be as great as 40 degrees. The bowler hat is strictly for decoration.