Ever imagined staying with a local family in a village in a whole new country? Well, I did just that – on the highest navigable lake in the world, in the Andean mountains of Peru. This summer I went to an island called Amantani that lies on Lake Titicaca on the border of Peru and Bolivia. Peru lies in the Southern hemisphere and it was winter there in July. One cold sunny morning we left from the docks at Puno to go to the island of Amantani. It took three hours to get there but I did not get bored at all. There was so much to see on the way. We saw snow-capped mountains, reed islands with...