Amantani Homestay Tour takes you to Uros, Amantani and Taquile on a group boat trip. You’ll stay in Amantani and pay the family in person for your meals and bed.
Puno city is the jump-off point for joining the best Lake Titicaca Tours. If you don’t want your Lake Titicaca Peru Tour to be rushed on a standard day trip or on a short half-day excursion, then Amantani Homestay Tour is for you.
Immerse yourself in the local living culture and tradition, which will let you get a brief unique glimpse of the local Islanders’ way of life in the Peruvian highest navigable lake in the world.
Your Tour Features
Tour Type Group
Tour Duration 2 Days
Pick-up time 7:45 AM
Drop-off time 4:00 PM
Pickup at Hotel
Meals LDBL
Entry tickets Included
Group guide English Spanish
Slow group Motorboat
Hiking Amantani, Taquile
Stay at Family House
What You’ll Do
Day 1: From Puno to Amantani Island, stop at the Uros floating Islands for a guided tour. On Amantani Island, after lunch hike up the Pachatata temple, join the “Peña Show” and stay at the family’s house.
Day 2: After 1-hour boat navigation to Taquile Island the men knitting Island, walk up through its stone paved trail to its Main Square. Before returning to Puno have a tasty lunch and head back directly to Puno.
Why to book with us?
With so many Puno tour companies out there offering the very same Lake Titicaca 2 Day Itinerary, what would make you decide to book with us? What’s the deal?
Lake Titicaca 2 Day Tour itself doesn’t have the best reputation due to many cases and stories about some of the tour companies taking money for the entire tour but not paying the host families.
When the indigenous community members of Amantani are not paid for the provided lodging and meals during the visit, they have to travel long distances by water and land to ask to be paid.
In order to achieve well treatment and payment to families, the best way to ensure you’re contributing the local’s development and securing they receive their money is paying directly in person to the families.
How much to pay?
The Amantani family lodging and meals base pricing is $20 USD or S/80 PEN per person.
When to pay?
At any time you consider is the best moment. However, the second day early in the morning after breakfast, before continuing the trip to Taquile Island might be a great time in our opinion.
Your Tour Itinerary
Day 1: Puno to Amantani Island
7:45 AM Hotel pick-up and boat ride to Amantani Island
FOTO: Uros islands reed boat tour
Lake Titicaca Homestay Tour starts with a short car ride from your hotel to the port, where a motor boat waits for all participants. It’s a regular slow motor boat that has three parts: the inside, outside back and outside upper deck; there is also a basic bathroom on board.
Along the way from Puno to Amantani Island, you’ll stop off at the Uros reed floating Islands for a guided visit. The surface of the islands is uneven, thin, and some liken walking on it to walking on a waterbed.
Your group guide provides information in Spanish and English about the way of life, and the natural source that provides home, transportation and sustenance for the local residents.
By joining this group boat tour, it’s more likely, you’ll go through the touristy side of the reed Islands because of its busiest time.
Locals will invite you walk inside their reed house where they might try to sell you their embroideries, tapestries and reed souvenirs. A traditional reed boat ride is also offered for an extra cost which allows you navigate between two floating Islands.
After 2 hour stop at Uros reed islands including a last stop at a commercial reed Island, you’ll find yourself navigating on the way to Amantani Island.
12:00 PM arriving at Amantani Island
Amantani Island is located almost 3 hours away from Uros. On arrival at the port, your friendly local host greets you with open arms. You’ll experience the local culture firsthand as you join a local family in their home.
After lunch in the family house, you’ll get free afternoon for walking around or embark on a one hour hike to the lookout point and ceremonial centers of “Pachatata” or “Pachamama”. Enjoy one of the highlight of your Titicaca Trip by witnessing the mesmerizing sunset over the expansive Lake Titicaca, a sight that will etch itself in your memory.
Later, enjoy a tasty dinner, join the Andean feast organized by the community to take part of their traditional dances and rest in the comfort of your local lodge.
Included:
- Group transfer from Puno hotel to port
- Group motor boat
- English Spanish speaking tour guide
- Entry tickets to Uros and Amantani Islands
- Lunches and dinners in Amantani
- Single, twin or three shared bedroom in Amantani
Excluded:
- Private transfer from bus station to port
- Snacks, bottled water
- Handicrafts, reed souvenirs
- Reed boat ride at Uros reed islands
- Alcoholic drinks
- Extra expenses
Day 2: Taquile to Puno
9:00 AM hiking Taquile Island
FOTO: Taquile Island hike
After an early breakfast at your Amantani house, you’ll traverse the endless blue horizon of Lake Titicaca, getting to Taquile Island from Amantani in roughly 1 hour, watching the first Island get smaller and the Taquile Island gets bigger.
The private motor boat drops you off at the North end of the elongated Taquile Island, where a steady walk along a well-paved path provides time to admire the scenery. You’ll see and encounter an ancient indigenous community dating back before the Incas that has learnt how to conserve its original, genuine traditions and Andean political organization throughout the time.
At a local community restaurant, you’ll have local delicacies based on Quinoa soup and white rice with grilled trout, or vegetable omelet, and hot Coca tea.
Following the route in Taquile, descend through another trail down to the port to onboard again the motor boat and head back to Puno city.
After 2 hour 45 minute boat ride, you’ll arrive at the Puno port and transferred to your hotel.
Included:
- Breakfast in Amantani Island
- Spanish English speaking tour guide
- Group motor boat to Taquile to Puno
- Entry tickets to Taquile Island
- Lunches in Taquile
- Puno port to hotel transfer
Excluded:
- Snacks, bottled water
- Alcoholic drinks at Taquile restaurant
- Private transfer from Puno port to hotels outside
- Extra expenses
What to bring:
- Small back pack with toiletries
- Hat, cap
- Local cash currency
- Sunscreen
- Sunglasses
- Warm jacket
- Scarf, gloves
- Comfortable shoes
- Snacks, bottled water
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