Navigating on a first class catamaran on the deep blue water of the Titicaca lake is a fantastic experience for anyone visiting the Sacred Lake of the Incas. The lake Titicaca, is the world´s highest navigable lake (12,500 feet) and it was here, at this lake on the Sun island, according to the legend, that the Sun God ordered his children, Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo, to found the Incan civilization.

  

The Catamarans were specially designed to enjoy the Titicaca lake. They are equipped with outdoor decks for picture taking and mountain range view, passengers can truly appreciate the overwhelming environment. The interior is equipped with large panoramic windows, a specialized library, a full stock bar, closed circuit TV and a dinning room where you will enjoy a candle light dinner.

An exclusive unique attraction available only to Catamaran Cruise Ship clients is a fascinating and unforgettable sailing journey, going back in time to experience Titicaca and transoceanic primitive navigation on board the RA, the only large (30 passengers) totora reed vessel availabe in the whole lake, and built to redeem ancestral and almost extinct Titicaca navigation.
This vessel is made of totora that grows in the low waters of the lake. The people of the region use this plant to build their small boats.

Some of the important precolumbian remains on the Sun island that we will visit are: The inca Garden, the Inca steps, the Inca Water Spring, the Pilkokaina Inca Palace.

  

Titikaka day/night cruise — 1 ½ days / 1 night

• Cruise navigation and hikes
• Kalawaya ceremony
• Sail in traditional totora reed vessel

DAY 1 - Early morning: you will be picked up from your hotel for a land transfer to Copacabana where you will visit the cathedral and the main square before boarding the Catamaran Cruise Ship sail to Sun Island, the legendary birth place of the Inca Empire. Visit the Inca Garden, steps and fountain then the Inti Wata Cultural Complex including the Ekako Underground Museum, the traditional medicine and the Titikaka Reed Shipbuilders display centers, the Pachamama agricultural Inca terraces, a handicraft center, the Intica lounge and at the Manco Kapac lookout point the largest variety of Andean camelids. Also, the Inti Wata Complex at Sun Island includes a unique sailing experience aboard a huge Titikaka Traditional vessel for a panoramic visit to the Pilkokaina Inca Palace.
Catamaran Cruise to Sun Island isolated Challapampa Village, buffet lunch while sailing. Half day of participative tourism, visitors have the opportunity to interact with one of the most unspoiled indigenous Titicaca villages through an innovative program organized with the local community visiting their own museum, chapel, school, a typical house, sailing in their vessels to an Inca holy temple and walking through Inca trails. It is possible to participate in a Kallawaya ceremony.

Cozy and romantic candle light dinner. Overnight on board the Catamaran in lake view cabins with private facilities.

  

DAY 2 - Buffet breakfast on board, the catamaran cruise ship sails across the lake while you enjoy the overwhelming panorama.
Land transfer to La Paz city before noon.
Afternoon: Arrival in La Paz and transfer to your hotel.

Optional:
- More extensive trekking on the Sun island
or
- A visit to the Sahuiña floating islands:
Transfer to the border of the lake by the highway that leads to Bolivia and Peru border (Kazani), we make a detour by a dirt road, we then walk for about 10 minutes before we get to a port. After a boat ride through the reeds, we get to these fascinating islands made artificially of reeds by the local people using the same technique of the Urus. After the visit we again get on board the boats. Return to Copacabana and land transfer to La Paz city.

Available services:

- Day cruises or overnight on board cruises.
- Daily international cruises connecting Puno (Perú) with La Paz (Bolivia).
- Guided visits to the legendary island of the Sun, to the Inti Wata cultural Complex and to the Copacabana sanctuary.
- Exclusive itinerary based on cultural interaction between visitors and local communities.


For more information or reservations please contact us.