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In Inka mythology, Manco Capac and Mama 0cllo, children of the Sun, emerged from the depths of Lake Titicaca to found their empire. Like famous naturalist Jacques Cousteau, today's visitors to Titicaca will surely feel the same emotion that captivated the symbolic universe of the ancient Peruvians. With lofty snow-capped peaks along its far shores, the vast blue lake at 3,800m is one of the Andes' most enchanting scenes.

Lake Titicaca is a lake located on the border of Peru and Bolivia. It sits 3,812 m above sea level, making it one of the highest commercially navigable lakes in the world. By volume of water, it is also the largest lake in South America.

This Lake is the world's highest lake navigable to large vessels, lying at 12,500 feet (3,810 m) above sea level in the Andes Mountains of South America, astride the border between Peru to the west and Bolivia to the east. Titicaca is the second largest lake of South America (after Maracaibo).

The Andean altiplano is a spectacular area where the highest navigable lake in the world is located. It is known as the ¨Cradle of the Inca Civilization¨ and a place where folklore and mysticism are still alive.

Titicaca (Stone Puma) has lived a long life of millions of years. It contains the sum of all the ages that have molded and defined the works that humans have undertaken in the southern Americas. Over this span of time, that reaches back some two million years, its body of water has been much larger, and encompassed areas today covered in salt flats and wasteland.

Lake Titicaca is a sacred place for the Inca civilization, as the Incan mythology says that the first Inca king, Manco Capac, was born here. According to the Incan mythology, this is the place where the world was created from, when the god Viracocha came out of the lake and created the sun, the stars and the first people. You will have many places to discover on the shore of Lake Titicaca, as well as on the many islands that exist on the lake.

More than 25 rivers empty their waters into Titicaca; the largest, the Ramis, draining about two-fifths of the entire Titicaca Basin, enters the northwestern corner of the lake. One small river, the Desaguadero, drains the lake at its southern end. This single outlet empties only 5 percent of the lake's excess water; the rest is lost by evaporation under the fierce sun and strong winds of the dry Altiplano.

The cold sources and winds over the lake give it an average surface temperature of 10 to 14 °C. In the winter (June-September), mixing occurs with the deeper waters, which are always between 10 to 11 °C.

Islands: Suriqui, Isla del Sol, Taquile, Uros, Amantaní.

TITICACA LAKE AND PUNO

Titicaca Lake, Andean Altiplano and Puno Trip Itinerary

DAY 1 : PUNO :
Reception and transfer from the train station to the hotel Overnight at Hotel.
DAY 2 :
8:00am. tour to Lake Titicaca, on route we will visit the floating islands of Uros and Taquile. Full day with lunch included. Overnight at same hotel.
DAY 3 : JULIACA :
Transfer from the hotel to airport, passing the Chullpas of Sillustani.