PERLLA 04: AMONG THE LAKE’S PATHS Visit Lake Titicaca and become acquainted with the communities’ and their costumes. Trek to the Ccotos Peninsula and then visit Taquile and the Titino Uros’ Islands where you will have the opportunity to practice local style fishing + Transfer. Activity: rural tourism + ecotourism Length: 4 days / 3 nights Season: Year round Price: Per person in US dollars Lodging: With a local family (Llachon – Santa Maria) Service: Private Minimum number of passengers: 2 Location: Lake Titicaca,  Taquile and Titino Uros’ islands in Puno Difficulty: Easy Difficulty of trek:    Eazy Moderate Moderate to Hard Day 1: Transfer Juliaca - Llachon (Capachica Peninsula). Free afternoon in Llachon (3,800 above sea level). Beginning of service in Juliaca: One of our representatives will be waiting for you at your arrival in Juliaca to assist you in your transfer to the community of Llachon in the Capachica Peninsula. Leaving Juliaca, the vehicle will take the road to Puno, but a bit later we will take a turn-off down a road that takes us across the Altiplano. We will pass through several tiny typical Altiplano towns before reaching the shores of legendary Lake Titicaca. Our local family is already waiting for us to take us to their home and invite us a cup of coca tea or a local mint called muña; here we can share their experiences and become acquainted with their traditions. After getting installed in your rooms, you are free to stroll in the fields to discover the life and traditions of this singular peninsula or maybe you would rather take a walk down the white sandy beaches of Lake Titicaca, the world’s highest navigable lake (3,800 above sea level). Overnight: Home of local inhabitants. Meals: Typical dinner included. Spanish speaking escort. Transfer on local bus or private transportation. Day 2: Llachon - Ccotos Peninsula: Trek (6-hour walk) - Llachon. We walk down to the lake’s shore with our guide to catch a boat that will take us to the Ccotos Peninsula (1-hour boat-ride). This 6-hour walk will let us discover several communities living on the shore of Lake Titicaca. The walk begins through a field on the lake’s shore where we will be able to observe the field work. After having lunch at a small isolated beach, we will climb to the Capachica’s Peninsula’s summit to reach a pass where we will enjoy an incredible 360° view of the islands of Taquile and Amantani, the Ccotos and Capachica peninsulas, Puno’s bay, and all of Bolivia’s Cordillera Real, which remind us that we are in the middle of the Andes. It is definitively an amazing look-out point over Lake Titicaca and its surrounding region. We will return down an ancient well fenced path, escorted by sheepherders and their animals, to the small village of Llachon, where our local family awaits us with a steaming muña tea, Overnight: Local inhabitants’ homes. Meals: Breakfast, box-lunch and dinner included. Spanish-speaking escort Navigation service: Private Day 3: Llachon - Taquile - Titina Uros Islands - Llachon. (Private boat service) Alter breakfast with our local family, we depart early to reach the dock where our captain is readily waiting for us with his boat. We leave Puno’s bay to enter the main lake. Water turns darker and approximately after an hour on the boat we disembark on the northern end of the island. We walk across the island down an agreeable path with no real difficulties, discovering Taquile’s own traditions and enjoying the fabulous landscape dominated by Bolivia’s Cordillera Real. We reach the main plaza in the largest town in the middle of the island where you will discover local craftsmanship; here the men knit their own chullos y chuspas (typical Andean knit hat and bag to carry coca leaves). Lunch at a typical restaurant to enjoy a trout or a lake pejerrey. We will then continue on the boat towards the Titino Uros (2-hour boat-ride). The Uros are an ancient almost disappeared civilization that flourished on floating totora reed islands on Lake Titicaca. The inhabitants have kept their costumes and traditions and continue to live of their fishing and a bit of handicrafts. Return to Llachon by boat.  Overnight: Local inhabitants home. Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included Service with a local guide Boat service: Private. Day 4: Transfer Llachon - Capachica - Juliaca. Connection to Lima or La Paz or Arequipa or Cusco Transfer to Juliaca on a private vehicle or on a local bus, where you will be able to embark towards other destinies such as overland to the Imperial City of Cusco, by air to the Lima , capital of Peru, overland or by air to the city of Arequipa, or overland to Bolivia through the border at Desaguadero or Casani.  Local Spanish-speaking escort. Meals: breakfast included Price includes: Visits as mentioned in the program. Transportation for pre-established excursions: Transfer and navigation. Meals: 3 dinners and 2 lunches (1 is a box lunch). Lodging: 3 nights at local inhabitants home on the peninsula. Spanish-speaking escort or local guide. Quality of the service is supervised by the same Llachon - Santa Maria Local Homes Association.    Price does not include: Beverages and tips Entrance fee to Taquile Island. Airfares or other connecting transportation. .

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