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PUNO,
LAKE TITIKAKA AND TAQUILE
ISLAND
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prices, please
inquire
1st. Day - PUNO
Transfer from
the hotel in Lima to the airport to flight to the city of Juliaca. Welcome at
the airport and transfer to hotel of your choice.
In the afternoon, tour to Sillustani Ruins,
archaeological zone situated at 34 km from Puno, one of the most magnificent and important necropolis in South America, in
this way we will appreciate a
panoramic view of the city, the bay of the Titicaca Lake, the highest lake in
the world and the Meseta del Collao. Afterwards we will visit the ruins and
enigmatic chulpas (burial
stone monuments).
We can
warmly recommend to taste the most famous trout of the world: the Titicaca lake
trout with the unusual taste that, according to the experts, gourmets and
Cordon Blue Chefs, it come from the
unpolluted pure oxygen and from the high clear waters of the lake. Return to the
hotel and lodging.
2nd. Day - PUNO
Continental breakfast. In the morning
we will be visit the UROS Floating
Islands, located in the highest sailing lake of the world, the
Titicaca Lake Natural Reserve, situated at 3,827 meters high over sea
level. Today the inhabitants live like the original inhabitants did.
The Uros still use totora reeds to built the floating island, their huts and rafts. They fish
with rudimentary nets and make curious artisan answers to their needs. Return to
the hotel and lodging.
3rd. Day - PUNO
Continental Breakfast. Transfer from hotel to
airport.
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