'Folk Capital of America', a city built on the shores of Lake Titicaca is a lake port showing landscapes of unique beauty. In its mountains and plains villagers are engaged to raise llamas and alpacas, thereby the creation of handicrafts and fine fabrics in alpaca wool.
The Floating Island of Uros, a group of 40 large floating reed islands, where residents still live as their ancestors, one of the oldest towns of America, maintain their customs and idiosyncrasies.
We also have the famous Taquile island, where its inhabitants are farmers and have developed an original form of community tourism through which people share their food, housing, customs and traditions.
At the edge of Lake Titicaca and at 3860 mts a.s.l., is Puno, a city that captivates and haunted by the strange magnetism that seems to spring from its hills, its lake with the appearance of sea and its own people, descendants of the Aymara, thriving town that dominated the highlands.
Navigating Lake Titicaca and its islands tour offers the opportunity to appreciate their natural landscapes, its white sandy beaches, its unique flora and fauna of the plateaus and its people and traditions.
Puno was the cradle of Incan civilization. Legend tells that from the waters of Titicaca, the highest navigable lake and the second largest in South America with 8400 square kilometers, emerged Manco Capac, the first Inca, to found an empire as he was ordered by the Sun God .
CHUCUITO
Chucuito is a small town, situated at 18 Kms from Punoal edge the road leading to Desaguadero and La Paz, Bolivia.
The church of La Asunción, made up with columns and arches, is considered by some researchers as one of the most beautiful in the region, and a remarkable example of Renaissance architecture during peruvian viceroyalty.
The building known as Inca Uyo, a rectangular building with stone walls. Upon the arrival of the Spaniards was partially buried in construction, it was allowed the access to the top of the wall of stones that were carved, a few meters from the building is an important group of rocks in already carved. Recently they were found inside the building monoliths with a shape of a fungus, which some researchers interpreted as phalluses.
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