Location: Located in the heart of South America.
Population: Approximately 8.000.000 inhabitants.
Area: 1.098.581 Km² (428,446 square miles)
Capital: La Paz (Administrative) and Sucre (Constitutional).
Official Language: Spanish, Quechua and Aymara.
Government Type: Democratic.
Religion: 90 % Catholics, but freedom of worship is guaranteed by law.
Environment: A safe country. Index of robbery and theft to tourists is the lowest in South America, Bolivia is probably the safest country of Latin America.
Shopping: Distinctive handicrafts at bargaining prices, gold, silver, alpaca wool, etc.
Altitude: Eat and drink moderately and take your time at first.
Seasons: Rainy from December to March, rest of the year mild and sunny.
Monetary: 7.35 Bolivianos per American Dollar.
Business Hour: 9:00 to 12:00 in the morning, 14:30 to 18:30 in the afternoon. Government and some financial institutions are now working strait from 08:30 to 16:30.
Local Time: 4 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), Bolivian Time is constant throughout the year and throughout the country.
Electric currency: La Paz runs on 220V and 110V current. The rest of the country is 220V, the current is in 50 cycles AC.
Accommodation: From first-class hotels to typical lodgings.
Entrance Ways: By air with several carriers, operating to Bolivia. However, the most attractive and usual way to enter Bolivia is from Peru, crossing the Sacred Lake of the Incas by catamaran. A Titikaka Catamaran Cruise Line offers daily connections from Cusco/Puno to La Paz.
Holidays: New Years day - January 1st.
Carnival - Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.
Good Friday - Friday before Easter.
Labor Day - May 1.
Corpus Christi - 60 days after Good Friday.
Independence Day - August 6.
All Saints Day - November 2.
Christmas Day - December 25.
Fishing
Photo Safari's
Kayaking
Cycling
Trekking
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Titikaka Catamaran Day Night Cruise (1N/1 ½ D)

PUNO - LA PAZ


Early land transfer to Copacabana Sanctuary, board the Catamaran Cruise Ship, lunch while sailing to Sun Island, the legendary birthplace 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 look out the largest variety of Andean cameloids. 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’s isolated Challapampa Village ½ a day of participative tourism, visitors have the opportunity to interact with one of the most unspoiled indigenous Titikaka villages through an innovative program organized with the local community sharing rituals, ceremonies, folkloric demonstrations, visiting their own museums, houses, chapel, school, sailing in their vessels to an Inca holy temple, walking through Inca trails and receiving authentic welcome gifts.

Romantic candle light dinner and overnight on board the Catamaran in lake view cabins with private facilities.

Catamaran Cruise Ship sail across the lake enjoying the overwhelming panorama. Land transfer to La Paz city before noon.

LA PAZ - PUNO

Early land transfer to lake Titikaka, board the Catamaran Cruise Ship, breakfast while sailing to Sun Island, the legendary birthplace 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 look out the largest variety of Andean cameloids. 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’s isolated Challapampa Village, ½ a day of participative tourism, visitors have the opportunity to interact with one of the most unspoiled indigenous Titikaka villages through an innovative program organized with the local community sharing rituals, ceremonies, folkloric demonstrations, visiting their own museums, houses, chapel, school, sailing in their vessels to an Inca holy temple, walking through Inca trails and receiving authentic welcome gifts.

Romantic candle light dinner and overnight on board the Catamaran in lake view cabins with private facilities.

Catamaran Cruise Ship sail across the lake enjoying the overwhelming panorama. Visit the Sanctuary of Copacabana, lunch and land transfer to Puno.


Half Day and Day Tours
Titikaka Catamaran Day Night Cruise (1N/1 ½ D)