This 3 hours tour will take you to visit the most important Peruvian pre-Incan cemetery with amazing funerary towers
Highlights
*Archaeological visit to the pre-Incan cemetery of Sillustani
*Learn about the Aymara culture with professional guides
*Admire the Lake Umayo around the cemetery
*Explore the collection of burial towers
*Visit of the local community to know about their lifestyle
included with
*Guided tour of Chullpas of Sillustani.
*Admission fees.
*Round trip transportation to and from your Puno hotel: José Antonio, Sonesta Posada Del Inca, Xima Hotels Puno, Casa Andina Premium, GHL Hotel Lago Titicaca.
*Live tour commentary provided in Spanish and English
excluded by
*Meals and beverages
*Gratuities
Essential
Information
Cancellations without charges up to 48 hours before start the tour
Restrictions
Children 2 and younger are complimentary
Detailed Description
We will pick you up from your hotel located in the city of Puno to go towards the archaeological site of Sillustani Puno. This amazing complex is located on the top of a peninsula on the shores of Lake Umayo, 22.3 miles from the city of Puno and Lake Titicaca.
This place has circa 90 funerary towers built by the Kolla culture, an Aymara community developed before the Inca Empire. A lot of mummies have been found inside these towers, including important people as priests, leaders and nobles. They were previously mummified and were places as fetal position, along with all their belongings such as gold, silver and ceramics.
The state of conservation of these burial towers is impressive, all of them were made with stones with varying shapes that fix each other perfectly. The architecture and engineering used by the Kolla culture was quite advance for its time. Some of them are 12 meters’ high, where the Lagarto Chullpa is the tallest and most representative tower.
The Sillustani tour continues with the visit to a local family that breeds Alpacas and they will show us how they process and cook their own food, their lifestyle, their looms and how they maintain ancestral customs.
At the end of the visit, you will be transferred back to the hotel.
