“Small is beautiful: Never more than 16 travellers.”

(Lake Titicaca can be reached by air or overland from Arequipa or Cusco, and there are daily flights from Lima.)

The Sacred Lake

The Titicaca National Reserve was established in 1978 to protect a 36,180 hectare area and the dozens of species of native birds, fish and amphibians that live there.

The world’s largest tropical lake, Titicaca is enormous. It covers an area of 8000 square kilometres and is 170 kilometres long and 65 kilometres wide. Along its seemingly endless shores and on its many green islands, its Quechua and Aymara inhabitants fish its bountiful waters or farm the fertile soils in the manner of their ancestors – the builders of Chucuito, Sillustani, Tiahuanaco and countless other sites scattered now in ruins across the high plains.

While for geologists Titicaca is the result of plate tectonics, for the people of the Andes it is quite simply where the world began, the home of their creation legend and the cradle of the civilisation of the Incas.

Complete Itinerary

Day 1: Puno

Arrive Puno.

Day 2: Uros - Amantani - Taquile.

Overnight on one of the islands.

Day 3: Puno

Return to Puno.