Cultural
program "A": Hydrofoil Cruise and cultural
experience (Full day tours) (T)
• Visit the Altiplano museum where a state of the art audio equipment
presents in your own language our past legacy as well as the colonial
and modern times.
• Meet the Limachi brother’s builders of the RA II and TIGRIS
for Thor Heyerdhal's and other scientist vessel expeditions. See
a full size reproduction of RA II, herds of llamas, Alpacas, Vicuñas
and several burial towers. Visit a weaving cooperative, the artisans
and fisherman villages. Admire the Urus-Chipayas Mud igloos and
floating islands, pre- Inca agricultural terraces - Takanas, Sukakollos
and a sample of the Salt Lake.
Cultural program "B": Hydrofoil Cruise
and one or more overnights on the Lake (PCT, MT, GT, HT)
Same
as cultural program "A" plus:
• Accommodation at the five star Inca Utama Hotel & SPA
• Audiovisual and night visit to "The Mystic World of the
Kallawayas". These natural medicine doctors of Bolivia are
authorized by law to practice medicine as any other MD and they
were using penicillin, teramycin and quinine many centuries ago.
They believe that you have first to heal the soul in order to
heal the body and our Kallawaya "Tata Lorenzo", will
bless visitors and tell a few persons their future, by casting
his sacred coca leaves.
• Candlelight dinner. Taste the local Titicaca trout in our “Suma
Untavi” Restaurant.
• Welcome drink in a take home ceramic “Keru” . Folklore show
for groups only.
• Optional: Visit of the “Alajpacha” Native Observatory , to learn
from the Aymara cosmology and wonder with the southern constellations,
which still guides our neighbors daily life
• Visit our Native Chapel (an authentic expression of the native
religion)
OPTIONAL:
You may also want to enjoy:
*
Enjoy the “Kallawaya Natural SPA (Andean natural medicine treatments
for stress, well being and weight related programs: coca cream
massages and mud or salt baths)
* Share with local natives their daily life/knowledge and traditions.
* Catch your own trout for your dinner from our breeding cages.
* See our Botanical Garden and the Indian Chapel.
* Pututu (Andean huge horn) wake up call to see the sunrise on
Illimani Mountain.
* Watch a “Karpay”, native ritual on a floating platform decorated
with ponchos and flowers where visitors are introduced to natures’
3 most important elements: water, wind and earth.
The Inca Utama Hotel & Spa *****
Facilities you can enjoy at our hotel:
• Huatajata hydro-harbor: The most modern harbor on the lake.
• The 5* Inca Utama Hotel & SPA: The overnight(s) spot: modern,
panoramic & clean.
• The "Choza Nautica" restaurant on the water where
a candlelight dinner grants a perfect romantic moment to watch
the sunset. Taste the Titicaca trout from our own breeding program.
• "Suma Untavi" Panoramic restaurant used for breakfasts
and dinners with authentic native folklore shows called "Peñas".
The Peñas are provided for groups.
• Kallawayas Natural Spa. A different Spa with millenaries treatments
for well being, stress and cosmetology.
• The fireplace at the cozy “Musiña Bar”
• The “Mirador “ Cafeteria in the sky room
• Library (Andean literature and videos)