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PUNO : Titicaca Lake - 3 days /2 nights
Program details | Itinerary day by day | Tour inclusions | Price | Options
Lake Titicaca is the world's highest lake navigable to large vessels, lying at 12,500 feet (3,810 m) above sea level in the Andes Mountains of South America, astride the border between Peru to the west and Bolivia to the east. Titicaca is the second largest lake of South America (after Maracaibo)

In Inka mythology, Manco Capac and Mama 0cllo, children of the Sun, emerged from the depths of Lake Titicaca to found their empire. Like famous naturalist Jacques Cousteau, today's visitors to Titicaca will surely feel the same emotion that captivated the symbolic universe of the ancient Peruvians. With lofty snow-capped peaks along its far shores, the vast blue lake at 3,800m is one of the Andes' most enchanting scenes.

The remnants of an ancient people, the Uros, still live on floating mats of dried totora (a reedlike papyrus that grows in dense brakes in the marshy shallows). From the totora, the Uros and other lake dwellers make their famed balsas--boats fashioned of bundles of dried reeds lashed together that resemble the crescent-shaped papyrus craft pictured on ancient Egyptian monuments.
Program details :
Starting point : Puno
Ending point : Puno
Duration : 3 days
Trip style : Active
Activities : Archaeological, Cultural, Ecological
Airfares : Not included, available upon request
Feel free to ask for extra services such as transfers, accommodation or other tours.

Itinerary day by day :

(B)=Breakfast ; (L)=Lunch ; (D)=Dinner

DAY 01 : Puno
Arrival and transfer to the Hotel.

DAY 02 : Puno (B)
Visit: The Cathedral Built of stone in the 18th century; the Balcony of the Count of Lemos.
P.M. The famous pre-Inca stone made tombs of Sillustani, located 21 miles (34 kilometers) north of Puno; on the shores of the solitary Umayo Lake. The Aymara buried their high priests in these tombs or "Chullpas", which vary in height from 32 to 42 feet (10 to 13 meters); the famous floating reed islands of the Uros Indian community, isolated from the modern world, these communities have kept their traditional customs alive. Return to the Hotel. Overnight.

DAY 03 : Puno (B)
Transfer to Airport or Bus Station.


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Tour inclusions :

- Booking on Double Rooms.
- Continental Breakfast during the whole tour
- Transfers in/out.
- English speaking Professional Guide
- Uros and Taquile Island Tour

Price per traveller :

Occupancy 3 ***(Tourist)
4 ****(Superior)
5***** (First)
Double or Triple
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Options :

Special !! Extra hotel night in Puno only US$ 39.00 (3***)

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