Titicaca Lake Tour | Puno

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.

Itinerary : Titicaca Lake vivential 3 days Tour | Puno - Amantani overnight

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

Day 1: PUNO - UROS - AMANTANI
Transfer to the local harbor. Then we will visit the floating islands of Uros. Main Activities in these Islands -made of totora- are fishing, hunting, and taxidermy. We will then continue towards Amantani island where we will stay overnight in local families houses. After lunch we will visit Pachamama and Pachatata ceremonial centers, where we will enjoy the beautiful fauna and flora of the Lake Titicaca Reserve. At night typical dinner and folk show offered by the villagers. (Overnight with a local family in Amantani island).

Day 2: AMANTANI - TAQUILE - PUNO (B)
After breakfast we you will leave Amantani at 8:00 in the morning for the 1 hour and 45 minutes boat ride to Taquile where you will visit the main village and ruins. You will leave the island at about 14:00 , arriving back in Puno at approximately 16.50 (Overnight Puno)

Day 03 : PUNO - SILLUSTANI(B)
Breakfast and visit to the archaeological center of Sillustani. We will observe impressive funeral tombs belonging to the Kolla culture (1200-1450). Their noble class (Caciques, priests) were buried in funeral towers called chullpas. Their corpses were previously mummified and placed in fetus position together with some of their belongings, such as gold and silver objects, jewelry, ceramics, and food. Transfer to the airport