Amantani Homestay Tour
US$ 35 per person
Amantani Homestay Tour is all about immersing yourselves in Amantani Island culture and tradition, on a boat tour starting from Puno city, 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.
On the way to Amantani Island, you’ll enjoy of Uros Floating Islands Tour, a short stop to learn about the Uros people and the unique way to live on reed floating homes.
Next day, after Amantani Island Homestay you’ll find yourself navigating to another secluded Island. Taquile the men knitting Island, unique for their well-preserved art textile.
Pay Amantani Family in Person for your meals and lodging
Puno city is the jump-off point for booking and doing the best Lake Titicaca Tours to Uros, Amantani and Taquile islands (top destinations).
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, here you’ll find and learn more about how exactly to reach to Amantani community lodging to experience what their day to day lives are like and have plenty of time to explore the other Aymara and Quechua speaking islands on this Lake Titicaca 2 day Tour.
Pay family in person
With so many Puno tour companies out there offering the very same Lake Titicaca 2 day tour, what would make you decide to book with us? What’s the deal?
The answer is:
2-Day Amantani Tour itself doesn’t have the best reputation due many cases and stories about some of the Titicaca tour companies taking money for the entire tour but not paying the host families.
When local indigenous communities of Amantani are not paid for lodging and meals provided during the visit, they have to travel long distances by water and land to ask to be paid by those local companies.
So, together we’ll be able to accomplish this goal: well treatment and payment to families.
The best way to ensure they receive their money is paying directly in person to the families.
So this way you’ll be supporting the local community.
You’ll feel you’re contributing to the Island’s development and benefit will be for both: travelers and locals.
Amantani community lodging and meal cost: US$20.00 USD or S/80.00 USD.
When to pay?
The second day, early in the morning after breakfast before continuing the trip to Taquile Island.
Tour Features
Tour Type: Group guided Boat Tour
Tour Duration: 2 days
Hotel Pick-up Time: from 7:45 am
Boat navigation to Uros: 30 min
Boat navigation to Amantani: 2h 45min (from Uros islands)
Where to stay: Amantani local family’s house
Arrival to Puno: 3:30 pm
Hotel Drop-off Time: from 3:45 pm (next day)
Consideration: walking and hiking involved on Amantani and Taquile islands.
Highlights: meet and encounter the Uros people, unique local living experience in Amantani, Taquile art textile tradition, lunch and motor boat.
Departure and Arrival Times
Day 1:
- 8: 00 am Navigate first to Uros islands.
- 9:30 am Visit inside their reed houses, buy souvenirs.
- 10:00 am Extra trip on top of reed boats (optional).
- 10:30 am Take the boat to go Amantani Island.
- 1:20 pm Upon arrival have lunch, free afternoon.
- 4:00 pm Trek to the Temple of Pachatata.
- 6:30 pm Return to homes for dinner and later welcome party.
Day 2:
- 7:00 am Early breakfast then 1 hour sailing to Taquile.
- 8:30 am Hike to top part of the Island.
- 11:00 am Lunch in a traditional restaurant and explanation about their fine textiles.
- 12:00 pm walk down through the rock steps to port.
- 12:30 pm estimated departure time towards Puno.
- 3:30 pm upon arrival you’re transferred to hotel.
Day 1: Uros Floating Islands Tour and Amantani lodging
This tour begins at 7:45 am with pickup from your hotel in downtown Puno, a quick transfer to bay of Puno while a motor boat waits for us.
This day will be a unique local living experience with islanders of Amantani. But first we’re visiting the reed island made entirely from reed grown in the lake, which provides home, sustenance and transportations for their residents: the Uros tribe, one which pre-dates Incan civilization. There are more than ninety islands and the surface of the islands is uneven, thin, and some liken walking on it to walking on a waterbed. From the first reed island go next by reed boat.
Go to Uros islands by kayak then get to Amantani by boat. Day 2: after Taquile visit, do a final paddle from Uros back to Puno.
Amantani Island is located about 3 hours from Uros, here at the port local families are waiting for us, taking us to their homes.
After lunch in home free afternoon for walking around then walk up to the Temple of Pachatata which is on the top of Amantani island, escorted guide. In the return to your local home have dinner. At 8:00 pm in local community house there´s a welcoming party for the entire group (optional) in the party everyone is dressed with local typical clothes.
Day 2: Boat navigation from Amantani to Taquile Island
This day is for visiting Taquile, in the morning after breakfast we’ll walk down the port and take boat to go Taquile the last island on our trip, located one hour of Amantani. Textile museum is on main small plaza and 40 minutes-walk up there seeing a local church, its municipality all with amazing sight around island.
Taquilean islanders are always wearing traditional clothes, men weaving their own since they are 5-years old keeping ancient traditions.
Lunch in a traditional local restaurant surrounded by its beautiful landscapes, farming terraces, the very well-known arches. Visit local restaurant, for lunch. Set menu is a Quinoa soup, Trout Grill companied rise, fried potatoes and Coca or Muña Te, and all products are grown by them.
Taquile is very well known by their textile and that´s why you´ll have an extra explanation of the guide about it. Return is through the stone paved path down main port of the island. Boat take us back straight Puno getting at 4:00 pm and drop off by hotels.
What’s included (what we provide)
- Transfer to boat port.
- Boat transportation
- English-Spanish speaking guide
- All entrance fees
- Lunch, dinner, breakfast (Next Day) and accommodation in family houses.
- Lunch in Taquile Island
- Drop off by hotels.
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How to book
- You can get it fully booked by paying an Initial Amount via PayPal and the Total Balance must be paid in USD or PEN cash at the end of tour, then this is how you’ll get your Tour Confirmation from us.
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