Puno: Uros Floating Islands & Taquile Island Private Tour

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Free cancellation

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Duration8h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN · ES

PickupAt your hotel

Two Islands, One Day on the World's Highest Lake

You get hotel pickup, a private guide in English, and transportation to two of Lake Titicaca's most distinctive islands. Ride a totora reed canoe through the Uros, hike Taquile's terraced slopes, and eat fresh trout lunch on the shore. The whole day—entry, boat rides, food, and return transfer—is arranged for you, which means you show up at your hotel in the morning and don't think about logistics again until evening.

Step-by-step itinerary

Visit Uros and Taquile Islands

Pick up from hotel in Puno
Travel to Lake Titicaca
Visit Uros Floating Islands
Learn about totora reed constructions
Ride totora reed canoe around islands
Boat to Taquile Island (2 hours)
Enjoy fresh trout lunch on Taquile
Take short hike around Taquile Island
Boat back to Puno

The Experience

So you're in Puno with a free day and someone mentions you can actually ride a boat made of reeds—like, the whole thing is woven from plants that grow right there in the water. That's the Uros Floating Islands, and yeah, it's real. Your private guide picks you up from your hotel in the morning and drives you straight to Lake Titicaca, which sits at 12,500 feet and is the highest navigable lake on the planet. The islands themselves are built entirely from totora reeds, and when you step onto one, you're literally standing on compressed plant matter that locals have been using for centuries to build canoes, houses, beds—basically everything they need.

The canoe ride is the part that stays with you. You'll push off in a totora reed boat, poling through channels between the islands while your guide explains how the reeds are harvested, dried, and bundled into these impossibly buoyant structures. It's quiet out there, just water and the sound of the pole hitting bottom. After a couple of hours on the Uros, you board a motorboat for the two-hour crossing to Taquile Island, where the landscape shifts—terraced hillsides, stone walls, a completely different vibe. The boat ride itself is part of the day; you're not rushing, you're just crossing one of the most unusual bodies of water in the world.

Lunch on Taquile is fresh trout from the lake, prepared by locals, and it tastes like it came out of the water an hour ago. After you eat, there's time for a short hike around the island if you want to move around, or you can just sit and look at the water. Then it's the boat ride back to Puno, arriving in the late afternoon. The whole day is private—it's you, your guide, your driver, no crowded group boat, no schedule that doesn't fit your pace. If your hotel is outside central Puno, there might be an extra charge for the longer pickup, so mention that when you book.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off in Puno.
private van transport to the lake.
professional English-speaking guide.
totora reed canoe ride on the Uros Floating Islands.
motorboat transfer to Taquile Island.
fresh trout lunch on Taquile.
short island hike.
motorboat return to Puno.
local taxes.

Good to know

Easy physical levelInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Cultural Immersion Travel Peru E.I.R.L.

Is this one for you?Best for travelers who want to see both the Uros and Taquile in one day without coordinating boats, guides, and meals separately—the private setup means your guide adjusts the pace and timing to your group, not the other way around.