Lake Titicaca
The highest navigable lake in the world where going through their waters is to travel by beautiful landscapes having for nice scenery the snowy mountain of the Cordillera Real (Real Mountain range) of Bolivia. Inside the lake exist a protected area of the natural ecosystem, you can also visit the islands of Uros, Taquile and Amantani, or carry out a small cruise to Bolivia.
Taquile Island Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
UNESCO proclaimed to Taquile Island and its textile art as a new Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. On November 25, 2005 the Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, proclaimed 43 new Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritages of Humanity.
Floating islands of the Uros
Lake Titicaca's top tourist attraction. Old descending Aymaras that build their houses over floating artificial islands that elaborate themselves on the waters of the Titicaca, in which they inhabit in organizations and with ancestral customs.
Puno City
The beauty and charm of the city, are a mixture of their typical constructions of Andean architecture in the sides of the hills until the bank of the Titicaca Lake, and that of their people, humble, poor and kind. Visit Plaza de Armas, the Cathedral, La Casa del Corregidor 17th Century (Deustua Nº 576), the Arco Deustua, Huasajpata Park and the new Mirador del Condor
Museums
It has modest museums of regional archaeological pieces as the Museo Municipal Carlos Dreyer (Municipal Museum Dreyer) located in Conde de Lemos Nº 289 and the Museo de Arte Popular de Puno (Museum of Popular Art of Puno).
Archaeological places of Puno
On the area of Puno flourished old pre-Inca civilizations like Tiahuanaco, Pucara and then the Inca. The best legacies are the chullpas of Sillustani and the fortress and citadel of Pucara and his Museo Litico Pucara.
Cities of the surrounding areas of Puno
Cities and small towns that flourished to the banks of the Lake Titicaca keep colonial jewels, outstands Pomata, Juli and Chucuito.
Yavari Project
This steamship was build in United Kingdom in 1861, then was discharged in packing cases and pieces in Peruvian port of Arica, from where incredibly being hauled by mule over the Andes to Puno, that took 6 years to complete. Now is registered as Museum, berthed in Puno Bay, outside the Sonesta Posada Hotel del Inca Puno.