Main Info
Overview and Highlights
This journey goes to Puno, the folkloric capital of Peru, we will explore what wonders this city has to offer along with a visit to the world famous Lake Titicaca, home to more than 65 floating islands! The most famous ones being: Uros, Amantani and Taquile, each different and unique in their customs and traditions! Come explore and learn about the pre -Incan cultures that still exist today!
Nearing its 43rd anniversary as a natural area protected by the State, the Lake Titicaca National Reserve conserves great biodiversity, supports the socioeconomic development of the Puno region, and maintains the cultural traditions of the communities that live near the highest lake in the world.
Today, many of its inhabitants are dedicated to tourism and the handicrafts business, activities to which they have added traditional fishing and hunting, thus preserving their ancestral link with the natural resources that the lake provides, making this area one of the most important tourism potentials of the reserve.
Itinerary
In the morning, we will pick you up from your hotel and drop you off at the Bus station.
This is a really nice bus trip that is more like a tour as it stops at four interesting sites along the way. Where you have guided tour and lunch at a restaurant. Places we will visit are:
Andahuyalillas: Sistine chapel of South America: this church is one of the most beautiful examples of Andean popular religious art. (It leaves at 7.30am and arrives at about 5pm.)
Raqchi (Wiracocha God Temple): This was an Incan church of monumental dimensions; 100 meters long, 26 meters wide and 14 meters high. The temple is divided in two naves and each nave shows 11 giant columns that’s huge!
La Raya:This is the half-way point between Cusco and Puno and also the highest point (4335 meters above sea level). The landscapes here are stunning and typical Andean animals like llamas, alpacas and vicuñas are common. It is also the geographic border between two cultures, the Quechua and Aymara.
Pukara: This is the most important and oldest ceremonial center of the altiplano. There are interesting life like sculptures and tombs. The trip also includes a really nice lunch buffet in a Sicuani town.
We will arrive late in the afternoon to our Confortable hotel in Puno.
• Meals: Lunch.
• Night: 3*** Hotel in Puno
Early in the morning we will transfer you from the hotel to the port and then by motor boat. We will take you to one of the legendary islands of Uros, where you can observe the lives of the Uros people who live on the floating reed islands. After a beautiful three hour boat ride, we reach Taquile Island, where we will break into smaller groups to stay with the local families.
You have the opportunity to trek to the top of the mountain (4150 m.a.s.l) to see the Temples of Pachamama and Pachatata. Enjoy the traditional customs of the island people. Food and authentic music prepared and performed by your designated family. Then, we return back to Puno and transfer you back to your hotel.
• Meals: Breakfast, Lunch.
• Night: 3*** Hotel in Puno.
After breakfast, we will take you either to Juliaca (airport) or Cusco.
Option 1: Transfer to Juliaca airport located only 45 minutes away from Puno.
Option 2: Transfer to the bus station and back to Cusco to Hotel.
• Meals: Breakfast.
• Night: Not included.
