The city of Puno in Peru is a popular tours like Lake Titicaca, Uros and Taquile Islands for many travellers from all over the World for few reasons, the most obvious being the fact that Puno city is located on the shore of world famous and fascinating Lake Titicaca.
The City of Puno
There are quite few places which bring tourists around, sightseeing highlights around the city include the Church of San Pedro, the Sistine Chapel of the Americas, main square the Plaza de Armas and the shoreline of Lake Titicaca at the Puno harbor. There you will find plenty of gift shops, you can also check out the boats at the harbor and even visit a Titicaca boats museum.
A quite lively nightlife exists for a city of this size, because of large numbers of tourists Puno gets more active to attracted it guests.
Outside area the Puno may give nice views of the city and lake, but locals would recommend you do not do so as lately is quite dangerous, and many tourists get robbed.
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Places to see and things to do in surrounding area of Puno
The Floating Islands of Uros
The floating islands of Uros are located just 14 km. (9 miles) away from Puno city, it takes around 30 min. from city to the island by boat. The name of Uros was used to name a very particular ethnic group that existed in Lake Titicaca with the Incas, Aymaras and older civilizations.
It is believed that the Uros were one of the first ethnic groups populating the Andean region. Those simple people who survived simply fishing and bird hunting didn’t want to join more advanced civilizations, they preferred to remain isolated. This is one of the reason why they decided to live in mobile houses on the lake, this way staying more isolated. In XVI century, the Uros were still living on the lake in small reed- boats that they used as floating houses. Only in the early 60´s, Uros started build small artificial islands with reeds for their homes. The reeds are still very important material in daily life of Uros. They eat the reeds, build boats and houses with it, feed animals and use reed to make fire and cook. Ready to explore Uros Islands yourself? Let us help you to organize your trip!
Step on the floating Uros Island
Lake Titicaca
Another reason to get interesting tours out to the reed islands or other islands on the lake is because this gives you a great chance to experience the magic and desolate beauty of Lake Titicaca itself- the world’s highest elevation commercially navigable lake. To enjoy and have a closer look of the real Island life we would recommend you to stay over night at the home stay in Amantani Island.
Seeing the scenery from the boat around you, enjoying fresh and clean air, the magnificent greenish blue colors of the lake will give you a new perspective of the region and how nature and it’s parts influence the local life.
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