City Tour Puno

Description City Tour in Puno

With the “City Tour in Puno”, you will be able to know the city of Puno in a few hours and the most relevant points of this altiplanic city.

PUNO is one of the highest cities in Peru and the fifth highest in the world. The physical space is comprised of the western shore of Lake Titicaca, in the inner bay of Puno on a slightly undulating surface (the central part), surrounded by hills. The upper part of the city has a semi-flat surface (My Peru Community, Yanamayo). It oscillates between 3,810 and 4,050 meters above sea level.

In the Puno Region, the oldest urban center of the area was organized, called Pucara, which is part of the City Tour in Puno, with a monumental architecture, sculpture and valuable ceramics. There culminated all the previous stage of domestication of high Andean plants and animals and then forged what would become the civilization of Tiahuanaco. Since that time began the construction of large buildings in the form of elongated and truncated pyramids, which would later characterize the Pucara. Approximately around 200 to 300 AD.

When Tiahuanaco broke down between the XII and XIII centuries, several independent kingdoms were formed: the Qollas, with centers in Atuncolla and Sillustani; the Lupacas with centers in Juli and Chucuito with notable settlements such as Cochacacha and the Pacajes, around the Desaguadero.

CITY TOUR IN PUNO, is a totally different way to make the tour in Puno with Chucuito or Uros, as it takes better advantage of the day, keep in mind that Uros is part of the tour to Amantani, being in Peru you must also make the tour to Machu Picchu.

Enjoy the City Tour in Puno

MAIN POINTS OF VISIT

• Puno (4,050 masl)

Puno – Plaza de Armas – C. Dreyer Museum – Cerro Huajsapata – Puno

• 09.00 hrs The City Tour begins with the transfer from the hotel to the Plaza de Armas and we start the visit:
• PLAZA DE ARMAS, It was built in the old Supay Wasi (House of the Devil), in the central part we could find a bronze basin, which was replaced with the monument of Colonel Francisco Bolognesi.
• CARLOS DREYER MUSEUM (additional entrance), which shows us a passage through pre-Inca times, until colonial times. It has rooms of the Andean cultures such as Pukara, Tiahuanaco and Inca. And it also gives us an overview of life in the Spanish colony. A great museum to visit without a doubt.
• CATHEDRAL OF PUNO, built in the seventeenth century and with the rank of minor basilica. The facade was sculpted and worked in stone by the Peruvian master builder Simón de Asto. The Cathedral of Puno was built on the so-called Supay Kancha or the Cerco del Diablo and is a sample of the Spanish baroque style that includes Andean elements that give the monument a mestizo character.
• CERRO HUAJSAPATA, this very traditional hill for the Puno people is a natural viewpoint from where you can see the city and Lake Titicaca; it has a monument of the Inca Manco Capac, founder of the Inca Empire. It is said that in the hill there are caverns through which subway roads run that communicate Puno with the temple of Koricancha, in the city of Cusco.
• WITCH MARKET OF LAYKAKOTA, we will visit the witches market of Laykakota so that you can learn a little more about our idiosyncrasy and ancestral traditions of our people.
• ARCO DEUSTUA, located 3 blocks from the main street in Puno, is this monument built in honor of the Peruvians who fought in the battle of Junin and Ayacucho, has two gazebos on the sides. This monument has a lot of historical and moral value. From this point we will continue the tour in Puno in a pedestrian way with our guide to visit and know:
• PINO PARK and JR LIMA, located in the center of the city of Puno, in the center is a monument to Dr. Manuel Pino, hero of the war with Chile; And where is the shrine of the Virgin of Candelaria patron saint of Puno. Continuous to it is the main street of all Puno (Jr. Lima) its streets are embodied figures of the main dances of the region, in this street we can find souvenirs, restaurants, lodgings, exchange houses, banks, etc.

BREAKFAST – HOTEL / LUNCH and DINNER – PASSENGER