Lake Titicaca's Best Hotels
the finest places to sleep on and around Lake Titicaca
The Deep blue waters and jaw dropping scenery of Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia provide incredible options for lodging. Click here for the best of the best.
Your stay on Lake Titicaca (Lago Titicaca) in Peru and Bolivia, the world’s highest navigable lake, is sure to be one of the highlights of your trip or even your life. From family homes, stunning resorts, and hotels built by shaman, interesting lodging options are abundant. The following are the very best the Lake of all lakes has to offer.
-Casa Andina Private Collection Isla Suasi (Isla Suasi Lago Titicaca, tel: (51-1) 941-52532, www.casa-andina.com) - Set in an isolated edge of Lake Titicaca 5 hours from Puno, Casa Andina’s private collection hotel uses only local materials such as stone, adobe and totora reed and is set on a private 106 acre island. Every single room offers stunning views of the majestic lake and you have the opportunity to see each of South America’s four camelids.
-Libertador Lake Titicaca Puno Hotel (Isla Esteves, tel: (51 51) 36 7780, www.libertador.com.pe)- Located on an island just off of Puno, here you will feel like your almost in complete isolation, but will still have the option of going into town for dinner. The large, luxurious hotel is the only five star hotel in the region and provides their own boat tours to the Islas de Uros, or floating islands made of totora reed.
-Sonesta Posadas del Inca Puno (Sesquicentenario 610, Sector Huaje, 51-51-36-4111, tel: www.sonesta.com)- Puno hotel is the best in the city. Sitting on the lake and home to the famous Yavari, an 18th century British made ship that was once a part of Peru’s navy on the Lake. The hotel has all of the same great qualities and comforts as every other Sonesta hotel in Peru.
-Hotel Taypikala (Chucuito, tel:(51 51) 369-689, www.taypikala.com)- Set near the Peru/Bolivian border, this hotel is owned by a reputed Aymara shaman and
It sits in the small lake side village of Chucuito, which is near the Templo de Fertilidad, or Temple of Fertility. Décor is quite strange and bewildering and uses natural materials and themes of the Tiwanaku culture.
-Isla Taquile or Isla Amantani, Peru- Rustic, costing just a few dollars, and in the home of a local Aymara or Quechua family, but these low budget stays are one of the most amazing lodging experiences you will ever find. Enter a complete new world with bright stars, deep blue water all around, and a traditional way that has remained unchanged for centuries. Any tour operator in Puno can arrange an overnight excursion that will also stop at the Islas de Uros.
