The inhabitants maintain their ancestral customs such as fishing on totora rafts. There are more than 80 islands approximately, inhabited by Uro-Aymara families, who also build and roof their houses with reed mats.
Schedules
First group morning (08:50 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) / Second group afternoon (4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.)
1/2 Day
Specific Tour
Spanish, English
15 people
On this tour you will have the option to decide whether to do it in the morning or in the afternoon. Depending on the time you choose, we will pick you up from your hotel around 8:50 a.m. or 4:00 p.m. to leave the port of Puno about 45 minutes later.
After 30 minutes by boat we will arrive at the Uros Islands, a thousand-year-old town made up of small islands made of reeds with small houses also made of reeds, where we will visit 2 of these specimens each for about 30 minutes. Here we will be able to appreciate the crafts and traditional customs of these communities based on hunting, weaving and aquatic life with the joint explanation between our guide and the local family. In this adventure you will even have the option of taking a ride in the typical reed boats used in this area. After the 3 hour tour we will return to the city of Puno.