Titicaca Lake Tour

2 days 1nigh at Titicaca visiting Uros, Taquile and Amantani

Titicaca Lake Tour, is one of the worth places in peru, the biggest Navigable lake is at 3,812 mt = 12,506 ft above sea level, a bi-national lake, shared by Bolivia and Peru, where the western and largest part corresponds to the Peruvian territory, on its islands and surroundings of this beautiful freshwater lake, our fascinating tor to Titicaca lake takes you to see the Uros floating island, inhabited by several families whose main income is from tourism, we also visit to mayor islands, Taquile, which according some people is the nicer one. The inhabitants of taqule will be in charge or hosting is for a night, then the other main island Amantani is place to explore on the seond day tour.

The Titicaca lake: that comes from Aymara Titi means Puma, and Ccacca “caca = Rock”, refest to the shape of lake and legends that say that the Pumas were converted in stones, at the shores of this lake various cultures have being developed, which today we know then as the cultures of the Collao: among the most recognized are; Tihuanaco Culture that developed between the seventh and eleventh centuries B.C., while in the Peruvian part we have the Pucara culture IV and VI DC, Same as the Lupaca Culture (XIII and XVI), which has being annexed by the inca culture.

The Titicaca Lake keeps people with traditions, that are part of the attraction of the 2 days Titicaca lake tour, and the natural beauty is a plus and makes memorable trip.

More about the Lake Titicaca Tour:

Uros floating islands: at 20 minutes by boat from Puno city, there are more than 20 islands inhabited by the uros ethnic families, the islands has being woven using reed that groups at the place, each island holds between 3 and 10 families, tourism is their main income and the way they live is very particular, they have to cook outside, on this way they avoid any risk of fire accident, and all of them do fishing and have built reed boats and cathorses, while they textiles are basically using alpaca, and sheep wool, is a nice place to see and some families has already created place to host people.

Taquile island:  Know as well Intika in quechua, this island is at more 45 km = 27.96ml from Titicaca lake which takes nearly 3 hours on the local boats, this island is an active island inhabited by about 2300 people, a nice island that hold a community of farmers and craftsmen, where the traditions are still kept intact, they speak aymara as main language and wear clothes made by themselves. This is the place where we spend a night, and have time to explore the farms and the nice walkways, and at evening there is a mandatory time to dinner in family and assist a local event.

Amantani Island: The biggest inland holds about 4000 people nearly 900 families, the most spoken language is quechua and they have beautiful farms and a shrine at the highest point of the name, then have the ceremonial center of pacha tata at 4150 mt = 13,615ft, from where you almost can see all the lake, when you do a hike you can feel clean air, and the wide lake that surrounds make the feeling of peace and joy. Here you can have opportunity to hike andbefore leaving the island you can buy some handmade textiles and crafts, the the ride from this lake to puno city takes 3 hours and covers 45km.

This Titicaca lake 2 days cultural tour is available along the year, private service 100% customized, where you can take at your own pace, and enjoy at its best way, escorted by our expert guides.