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Location: To the Southeast of the country.
Extension: 72,012.27kms²
Capital: Puno
Altitude: 3,827msnm
Temperature: 10ºC (máx.19, mín.2)
Rains: December to April

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SILLUSTANI - TITICACA LAKE - UROS ISLAND & TAQUILE
3 Days / 2 Nights

DAY 01.- LIMA - PUNO (SILLUSTANI CHULLPAS)
Arrival, reception and transfer to the Hotel. Visit to the Sillustani Chullpas 30 kilometers from Puno at the border of the Umayo lake. Ancient cemetery of the Hatun Colla chiefs. This pre- Inca monuments merits a special attention by the magnificent work. Return to the Hotel. Lodging.

DAY 02.- UROS AND TAQUILE ISLAND
Breakfast in the Hotel. In the morning, transfer to the Puno port to board the boat which will take us to the Taquile island where we will see a beautiful sightseeing of the lake, a colorful folklore and a splendid handicraft. It’s also notorious for the “sicure” fabrication, a typical musical instrument of the region. On the way we will visit the Uros floating island. Return to the hotel. Lodging.

DAY 03.- PUNO - LIMA
reakfast in the Hotel. At the selected hour transfer from the hotel to the airport to board your departure flight.
* Daily Departures

F/D TAQUILE ISLAND
Visit to the Taquile island which has like the more important attractions the landscape, dominated by andeans where is cultivated the potatoe, maíz, quinua and haba; ceremonial centers where its performs rites for the cocecha and pesca were abundant, and the hospitality of its people, well organized. The texture on this island is an main activity and the clothes which elaborated its settlers shows designs related with its daily life. Box Lunch.
* Daily departures
* Optional lodging with complete pension.


F/D AMANTANI ISLAND
Visit to the Amantani island where we can visit the archaeological places like the cementery cave of Chatajón and ceremonials like Pasallasca O’cco, where each year is venerated the Mama Qocha. Its habitants dedicate principally to the agriculture and the fishing. They product textures in design variety and they make baskets and bins with the straw of ichu.

They also realize carved on granítica rock proceeding of the Llacastiti mountain.

Box lunch included.
* Daily Departures


F/D SUN ISLAND
Natural island in all the Bolivian territory situated from 155 Kilometres to Puno. The excursion consists in the transfer from Puno to Copacabana for then since its port to take an private boat to this island enjoying the inca remains and spectacular views of the lake and closly mountains. From its top , low a flowing which has denominated like “la Fuente de la Juventud”. Lunch in Copacabana and return to Puno.
* Daily Departures
* Regular service disposable with the tour restrictions.


OBSERVATIONS :
* To visit the Taquile or Amantani island we can to mend a brief stop on the Uros floating island at request. See rates.
* Its can arrives to Puno from Lima, Cusco, Arequipa and La Paz.


 
 
Brief historical review
» Puno was host of one of the most important cultures of the time preInca, the Tiahuanaco, Maxima expression of the old Aymará town and whose archaeological rest cause admiration.
According to the legend the first Inca Manco Cápac and his wife Ocllo Breast emerged from the Titicaca Lake with the mandate of their father the God Sun to found the Empire of the Tawantisuyo that was divided in four regions, occupying Puno the region of the Collasuyo that extended by all the plateau of the Collao.
When arriving the Spaniards at the city of the CuzCo (in the middle of century XVI), found out the great mining wealth of this region, specially in gold and silver. Around 1660 the bloody fights by the one possession riquísima mine in Laikakota (to one legua of present Puno) forced to the Virrey Count of Lemos to travel to the zone to pacify it, which lead to the creation, the 4 of November of 1668, of the present city of Puno.
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