{"id":82,"date":"2017-07-25T21:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2025-02-20T18:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:38:52","slug":"isla-taquile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/authentic-stay\/titicaca-lake\/taquile-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Taquile Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Taquile Island is on Titicaca Lake, at 2h from Chifr\u00f3n and 1h from Amantan\u00ed by boat and at 35km in the North of Puno. This is one of the biggest islands of Titicaca Lake, well known as \u00ab&nbsp;The Sons of Sun Island&nbsp;\u00bb. There, travelers will be able to climb a 520-step stairs to reach the wonderful view of Taquile Island square. Moreover, crafts of Taquile Island are registered to the UNESCO World Heritage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Youth And Beauty,sans-serif; font-size: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 72px;\">T<span style=\"font-size: 60px;\">aquile<\/span> I<span style=\"font-size: 60px;\">sland<\/span><br \/>\n <\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<p>Taquile Island is on Titicaca Lake, at 2h from Chifr\u00f3n and 1h from Amantan\u00ed by boat and at 35km in the North of Puno. This is one of the biggest islands of Titicaca Lake, well known as \u00ab&nbsp;The Sons of Sun Island&nbsp;\u00bb. There, travelers will be able to climb a 520-step stairs to reach the wonderful view of Taquile Island square. Moreover, crafts of Taquile Island are registered to the UNESCO World Heritage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d90f4d; font-family: Youth And Beauty,sans-serif; font-size: 24px;\">Activities<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boat trip with veil boat and oar boat<\/li>\n<li>Hiking<\/li>\n<li>Traditional fishing<\/li>\n<li>Mystical ceremonies<\/li>\n<li>Typical dance and music<\/li>\n<li>Connection with nature and its positive energies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #d90f4d; font-family: Youth And Beauty,sans-serif;\">Touristic offers<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d9880f;\">Rural guest house<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Visitors will stay in beautiful traditional rustic rooms, which are made with <em>pis\u00e9 <\/em>and with authentic decoration. Taquile community allows single or double rooms, with a total capacity of 24 people. Sanitary fittings are to be shared, and there are shower with hot water (solar shower).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d9880f;\">Typical food<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Travelers will eat typical dishes from the region in rural restaurants with views on Titicaca Lake, or in host families\u2019 kitchens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d9880f;\">Guide<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ASTURS association offers to the travelers its guide services for the different tours and suggested activities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #d90f4d; font-family: Youth And Beauty,sans-serif;\">Access<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d9880f;\">Access from Puno:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d9880f;\">By boat:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>From Puno port&nbsp;: the journey lasts around 2h and goes through Uros floating islands, but also the South of Chuchito peninsula and the North of Capachica.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d9880f;\">From Capachica (capital):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To reach Taquile Island, take a boat to come out from Chifr\u00f3n. Please contact us before you come, ASTURS also gives information to its office at <em>Plaza Principal Jir\u00f3n Juliaca, N\u00b0229 \u2013 Capachica.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d9880f;\">From Juliaca:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Juliaca, you can take a bus to the bus terminal which is situated between <em>Avenue Tacna<\/em> and <em>Avenue Circunvalaci\u00f3n<\/em>. The journey lasts around 40 min.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, this entry is only available in Espa\u00f1ol. La Isla de Taquile se encuentra ubicada en el lago Titikaka, a 2 horas de Chifr\u00f3n y 1 hora de Amantan\u00ed en barco. Es una de las islas m\u00e1s grandes del lago Titikaka, conocida como la \u201cIsla de los hijos del sol\u201d ubicada a 35 km. al [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425,"parent":43,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-82","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astursperu.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}