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½DAY KAYAKING TO UROS ISLANDS
(Lake Titicaca)
RATES 2023
PRIVATE & GROUP SERVICES
RUMBO EXPLORA have carefully selected the best transport options, Kayaking in Lake Titicaca, with guided visits to Uros Islands, all year around. RUMBO EXPLORA offer you the possibility to make your transport reservation, due that not all transport companies have an automatic booking system. We will confirm your reservation within 24 hours.
½DAY KAYAK TO UROS ISLANDS
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US$40.00 p/p(PREMIUM GROUP SERVICE) |
Inclusions: Transfer hotel to port, experienced guide in kayaking in minor lake, basic paddling instructions, sea kayak equipment, entrance fees to Uros Islands, support-rescue motor boat, return to Puno port by local boat, transfer to hotel. Exclusions: Additional charge for transport from hotels located out of Puno city as Jose Antonio, Mirador del Titikaka others. Mineral water, tips and others not mentioned in the program. |
| Pick-up from hotel: 6:30 – 6:45am Starting of Kayak Tour: 07:00am Return in Puno: 9:45am. Then transfer to hotel. |
Distance of paddle in kayak: 2.00 to 3.00km (from Port to Uros Islands) Duration of kayak activity: 1:00 to 1:30hrs paddling (one way) |
| ROUTE OF KAYAKING (Group Tour): Departure point: Port of Puno Arrival point: Uros Islands |
First Aid Kit & Services: Oxygen on board during the journey, first aid kit |
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½DAY KAYAK TO UROS ISLANDS
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| PRICE PER PERSON (SUPERIOR CLASS) | INCLUSIONS & EXCLUSIONS |
| US$00.00 (based on 02 persons) | Inclusions: Transfer hotel to port, experienced guide in kayaking in minor lake, basic paddling instructions, sea kayak equipment, entrance fees to Uros Islands, support-rescue motor boat, return to Puno port by private motor boat Exclusions: Mineral water, tips and others not mentioned in the program. |
| US$00.00 (based on 03 persons) | |
| US$00.00 (based on 04 persons) | |
| US$00.00 (based on 05 persons) | |
| On request 06 persons up | |
| Pick-up from hotel: 6:30 – 6:45am or any time (until 14:00pm) Starting of Kayak Tour: 07:00am or according pick up time Return in Puno: 9:45pm. Then transfer to hotel. |
Distance of paddle in kayak: 2.00 to 3.00km (from port to Uros Islands) Duration of kayak activity: 1:00 to 1:30hrs paddling (one way) |
| ROUTE OF KAYAKING (Private Tour): Departure point: Port of Puno Arrival point: Uros Islands |
First Aid Kit & Services: Oxygen on board during the journey, first aid kit |
½DAY KAYAKING TO UROS ISLAND (Lake Titicaca)
Private & Group Services
DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY:
PUNO – UROS ISLAND – PUNO: Early morning, a driver and guide will pick you up from the hotel in Puno (Peru), to take you to the port, where is waiting for you all kayak equipment. A kayak ride, paddling about 1:00 to 1:30hours to the island of Uros. Fishermen and hunters inhabit the floating islands of Uros. The residents of the Uros use the totora reed (aquatic plant) that grows in the lake, to create life conditions and ensure that the islands stay afloat. The dense roots that generate these plants support the island. The Uros use the totora reed to build their islands, houses, for cooking, eating, and to sale in the city of Puno, besides to barter (exchange) with products such as quinoa, potatoes, barley and wool. This culture appeared over 3000 years ago and the people have spoken as a language Uro puquina and they had dark-colored blood and they did not feel cold, the last person who still spoke the Uru Puquina language died in 1951, now a day the population speak Aimara Language. On Uros live more than 2000 people, divided into 80 artificial islands, where there is a garden, primary school, a medical center and an Adventist church, besides guest rooms for visitors and the reed boats the unique method of transportation which is also used for fishing. Then a return trip by motor boat to Puno.
WHAT IS INCLUDED: Transfer from hotel/port/hotel, experienced guide in kayaking at Lake Titicaca, (in English & Spanish), basic paddling instructions before departures, Prijon kayak equipment, rescue motor boat (allways nearby the participants), entrance fees to Uros Island US$3. Besides pre-trip information + organization and all local taxes. There are no hidden extras in our prices.
NOT INCLUDED: Additional charge for pick-up and drop-off in group services, round trip transport for hotels located out of Puno city as Jose Antonio, Mirador del Titikaka and others.
IMPORTANT: Our motor boat has 25 comfortable seats, velocity 08 knots + night navigation lights + oxygen & first aid kit + life jackets + lifebuoy + toilet + Carpeted floor + reclining seats + panoramic windows + potable cooler + telephone charger. Rumbo Explora provide to visitors all possible choices. Beware with illegal local Tour Operators or middleman, who do not pay the real costs to suppliers (transport, local restaurants & guest houses, tour guides & drivers). Help us avoid the explotation.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
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| BY RUMBO EXPLORA | OTHER LOCAL OPERATORS |
| Technical specifications: Velocity of regular boat 8knots per hour or 15km/h, 25 confortable seats, wooden structure, night navigation lights, life jackets, lifebuoy + toilet on board + panoramic windows, reclining seats, telephone charger. Lenght: 11 meters, beam: 2.80 meters. Technical specificatications: Kayak equipment as Kayak Prijon (doubles & singles), paddles, spray skirst for protection, lifejackets, whistles, support-rescue motor boat |
Technical specifications: Velocity of regular boat 7knots per hour or 13km/h, 25 narrow seats, wooden structure, toilet on board + panoramic windows. Lenght: 11 meters, beam: 2.80 meters. |
| First Aid Kit & Services: Oxygen on board during the journey, first aid kit, and maps of lake Titicaca, which led us to be one of the best tour operators in the southern Perú. | First Aid Kit & Services: First Aid Kit |
| Insurance policy: Our regular boat and its passengers are covered with insurance policy during the trip. | Insurance policy: Insurance Policy |
| Tours guides: We put at your disposal the most qualified staff of tourist guides, with degree of the Institute (3 years) or University (5 years) and certified from the language center of the university and Peruvian-American Cultural Center (US Embassy) with a high level of English. | Tours guides: Some travel agencies in Puno are not paying their guides and motor boat drivers, hiring them without experience. We are sure that you will be forced to buy souvenirs from the islands with higher prices, and the guides will try living of their commissions, which can be a bad experience for you. ¡Be aware! |
IMPORTANT NOTE:
You can see that in Rumbo Explora we have developed for you tailor-made itineraries with the best price as competitive as possible, providing an excellent service and paying our guides 10% above the legal wage agreed with the tour guides in Peru. Our staff are some of the best paid in Cusco & Machupicchu, Puno & Lake Titicaca, Arequipa & Colca canyon, Lima and Nazca & Paracas, which allows us to attract only the Best Tour Guides, Motor Boats and Land Transportation with national permit, to none other local company, that can only provide a cheaper price by providing a far inferior service and saving on staff costs, ¿How? Hiring tour guides in training without experience and not paying them, besides avoiding taxes to government.
Big Travel companies from Europe, North America, Australia and others work with the Peruvian Tour Operators located in Lima-Peru, who work as middlemen receiving from them good prices from the Tours & Packages, and paying to us 40 to 50% minor the normal price, besides 2 to 3 months delayed, being this the reason that Rumbo Explora have decided to offer tours & packages directly to travelers.
