Puno

You will be met at the train or plane and taken to your hotel to relax and acclimatize to the high altitude.

You will have a full one day lake tour visiting the human made islands of Uros, as well as the natural island of Taquile, where you will mingle with the local population and see their unique handicrafts and style of dress.

You will be transferred to the airport for your flight out.

• 2 nights at comfortable hotels based on US. standards.
• Guided visits with English speaking tour guides.
• All transfers and entrance fees.
• 2 breakfasts. 4-star and up hotels offer breakfast buffets.

On the outskirts of Puno you will find mysterious pre-Inca ruins called chullpas (funeral towers). They sit on the windswept altiplano (high planes) on a peninsula in Lake Umayo at Sillustani. The Colla people, a warrior tribe that spoke Aymara, buried their elite in giant cylindrical tombs, some as tall as 12 meters high (40 ft.). The stonemasonry is exquisite (many archaeologists and historians find them more complex and superior even to Inca engineering), and the structures form quite an impression on such a harsh landscape.

As an upgrade to a normal airport transfer:

As part of a group tour, roundtrip Puno-Sillustani-Puno*:

Expand your visit to Lake Titicaca by staying overnight on the breathtaking Island of Amantani.

The two tours below are conducted on a luxury Catamaran Cruise Ship, the second of which gives you the opportunity to spend a night onboard. Both tours begin in Puno and both offer the choice of returning to Puno afterwards or continuing by land to La Paz, Bolivia, the world’s highest capital city.

Lake Titicaca Catamaran Tour- Full Day

Take an early land transfer to Copacabana Sanctuary where you will board the Catamaran Cruise Ship. Snacks are provided on-board while sailing to Sun Island, the legendary birthplace of the Inca Empire. Visit the Inca Garden and then the Inti Wata Cultural Complex including the Ekako Underground Museum, the traditional medicine and the Titikaka Reed Shipbuilders display centers, the Pachamama agricultural Inca terraces, a handicraft center, the Intica lounge and the Manco Capac lookout.

Catamaran Cruise Ship to Chua harbor while enjoying a lunch buffet on board, land transfer to La Paz.

Lake Titicaca Catamaran Tour- 2 Days/1 Night

Take the Catamaran Cruise to Sun Island’s isolated Challapampa Village while enjoying lunch on board. Visitors have the opportunity to interact with one of the most unspoiled indigenous Lake Titicaca villages through an innovative program organized with the local community. You may visit their own museum, chapel, school, a typical house, sail in their vessels to an Inca holy temple and walk on Inca trails. In the evening you will have a romantic candle-lit dinner and spend the night on board the Catamaran in cabins with lake views and private facilities.

Catamaran Cruise Ship sails across the lake while guests enjoy breakfast and the breath-taking panorama. Land transfer to La Paz city before noon.

Also available:
Optional trekking on Sun Island
Alternative hydrofoil tour with overnight on Island