Located in the southern Andes of Peru, between the border Peru - Bolivia, the Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world, which altitude is 3,812 metres above sea level. The Titicaca is situated in the Collao plateau in Puno, and as the biggest peruvian lake it receives the waterflows of rivers Huancané, Coata, Ilave and Ramis (from Peru) and its waters give birth to the Desagüadero river that goes inside Bolivia.

Peru has the 59.6% of a total surface of 8,380 km2, in which you can find interesting islands with ancient culture and people like: Uros, Taquile, del Sol or Amantaní, for example. Along its shore are spread multiple towns that keep the rich testimony of pre-columbian and colonial times.

The importance of Titicaca lake is that works as a weather-regulator in a place where temperature would be below 0 Cº. It helps to maintain a higher temperature at nights when the heat of sun rays is irradiated to the surroundings. That is why, Puno (3,827m), which lies at its border, is warmer (but cold) than Juliaca (3,824m), a city located some kilometer's far behind it.

One of the most primitive pre-Inca towns of Peru. Of ferocious and brutal people's origin, the Inca who considered them as a sub human town subjected them. This town lived in a perfect symbiosis with the Titicaca and they lived exclusively in artificial islands that they knitted on the not very deep waters of the lake. 

As pure race it was extinguished almost 50 years ago, today their descendants are the miscegenation Uro Aymara; they speak the Aymara, and conserve many of their ancestral customs. 

The current Uros inhabit the swampy area of the Bay of Chucuito, very near Puno where they coexist in a social political organization far from the traditional way of a modern civilization. 

A family usually builds its housing, hut knitted in totora (rush or cane), with waterproof roofs against the rain, but existing in its interior great humidity for what is frequent that they suffer from rheumatism at short age. Each family also knits these islands and they are held to the bottom of the lake. 

Dedicated to the fishing, from crafts knitted in totora, also to the sowing of some tubers in their own islands, and to the elaboration of crafts. 

When walking on these islands you should have the caution of not stepping their peculiar gardens, because it is possible to have a bath, that bothers its inhabitants. 

In some of the islands are found schools for the children, maybe the only floating schools of the world. The children arrive every morning in their own rafts that they learn to knit from early age. 

This town has received the influence of the Catholic religion, and they celebrate its festivities also burying their deaths in mainland. 

To visit the islands of the Uros, you should take a craft from the port of Puno, minimum advisable time 4 hours. These crafts carry out a ride by the diverse islands and disembark in some of them to visit their inhabitants and learn something about their life style.

A chullpa is a funeral monument, original of the Aimara culture, in tower form with a very small door that only allows the entrance to trails; created for the funeral of the big gentlemen with his family and belongings; usually built in arrays and symmetrically aligned. 

Located at 18.7 miles (30 km) N of Puno, on the highway Puno - Juliaca, on a deviation to the west. Archeological pre-Inca complex, construction of big "chullpas" (Andean monument) with square or round shape, of stone and adobe. Sillustani is characterized to have the most perfect chullpas in the whole Peru; they have cylindrical shape that can reach up to 12 m of height, made in granite with varied internal distribution. In all the chullpas mummified cadavers have been found. Sillustani is located beside the Umayo Lagoon, in the area recently inaugurated as ecological reservation.