- Upon arrival to Puno, you will be welcomed by an English speaking guide at the airport or station and taken to your comfortable hotel where you will have time at leisure to acclimatize to the high altitude.
- Overnight at selected hotel
DAY 02 Uros & Taquile
- Breakfast
- Today you will have a full day excursion by boat to the floating islands of the Uros Indians, made of packed totora, in the Lake Titicaca.
- Continuing the excursion, you will visit Taquile islands, where its inhabitants are dedicated to agriculture and have developed an original form of "communal tourism", in which they share with their visitors their food, homes, customs and traditions.
- Overnight at selected hotel
DAY 03 Puno – Sillustani - depart
- Breakfast
- Today you will depart to the archaeological site of Sillustani, located to 34 km from the city of Puno. The necropolis, which is one of the largest in America, and one of the most impressive in the world, lies on an esplanade 4000 m.a.s.l. in form of a peninsula, bordered by the beautiful lake of Umayo. The Chullpas or Aya Wasis found there are gigantic funerary monuments built by the Kollas.
- These quadrangular and circular edifices 12 meters in height, and the way they were built challenges the laws of equilibrium since they have a smaller diameter in the base than at the top. Outstanding among these are the Chullpa of Lagarto (lizard) and the Inti Watana.
- Afterwards transfer to the airport to take your flight back Lima; or transfer to the train station to continue your trip to Cusco.
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ABOUT PUNO
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At the edge of Lake Titicaca, at an altitude of 3,860 meters above sea level (m.a.s.l.) is Puno, an enchanting city.
Puno has been denominated the "Capital folklórica del Peru" (folkloric capital of Peru) by the wealth of its artistic and cultural expressions.
The city has a strange magnetism that emanate from the surrounding mountains, its lake that's looks more like an ocean, and its people, descendants of the Aymara, a strong people who once ruled the high plateaus.
The Titicaca Lake, the highest navigable lake in the world invites you to travel through their waters by beautiful landscapes. Inside it does exist a protected area of the natural ecosystem, you can also visit the islands of Uros, Taquile and Amantani, or carry out a small cruise to Bolivia.
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