Taquile, Peru Travel Blogs

Taquile Island
Oct 3, 2009 (12 photos)

Taquile Island is located on the Peru side of Lake titicaca and sits at approx 13,300 ft above sea level. Taquile was one of the last islands to fall into Spanish hands during the conquest and still holds many Spanish traditions. The Spanish forbid ...

Taquile Island
Mar 26, 2005 (11 photos)

... I think I saw a tear or two. I just gave Gloria the customary tooshie squeeze and open mouthed kiss and we were off. Taquile was nice as well. We all took the two kilometer hike to the plaza and waited for further instructions. The plaza has a cool ...

Taquile
May 9, 2008 (10 photos)

Taquile

Still exploring the fantastic lake
Sep 13, 2006 (4 photos)

... and made me think of Tuscany despite the fact I have never been there! All got back on the boat for our hour trip to Taquile another smaller natural island which was also beautiful. Had to walk up hill for a bit to get to the main square where we could ...

Taquile, Puno and Sillustani
May 27, 2000

... . My family were quiet and shy and I spent my time wandering around the main village and surrounding hillside. The people of Taquile were very friendly and they had lots of unusual customs, the men walked around all day knitting and they all wore hats. ...

Home stays and bad backs...
Oct 17, 2006 (19 photos)

... carrying 2-3 cases of beer on their backs uphill at a pace I would have struggled too much carrying nothing. Like Taquile, Amantaní is another small island populated by Quechua speakers. About 800 families live in six villages on the 15-square kilometer ...

Family Fun
Aug 28, 2009 (14 photos)

Our two day adventure exploring Lake Titicaca started with a boat journey to the floating Islands of Uros... made completely from reeds. We were given a talk about how they created the islands by binding reeds togethers and then covering them with more ...

Taquile Island
Aug 21, 2007 (21 photos)

... our walk, which ends in 550 steep steps going down. I think this country is all about steep steps!  Taquile Island is a very popular tourist destination and the steps are packed with tourists which makes getting down those stairs without ...

Lake Titicaca islands
Nov 26, 2007 (9 photos)

... early by bicycle taxi to the port. We caught a boat with our local guide Lucho to the first island on Lake Titicaca called Taquile. We had quite a hike up to the main square, but once there we looked around the market and photography exhibit in the town ...

Lake Titikaka
Apr 7, 2008

... really special experience and the local women sang some songs when we left onthe boat the next day. We continued by boat to Taquile, an actual island and saw some similar cultures here although we only spent an hour here, it took 3 hours to ...

Adventures on the Sacred Lake
Jan 7, 2007 (15 photos)

... tuks) from the hotel to our 1950's boat for the 3 hour boat trip across Lake Titicaca to the beautiful island of Taquile.  Life there continues as it has done for hundreds of years with fishing and agriculture being pretty much the only forms of ...

Inhabiting with the Islanders
Jan 20, 2009 (109 photos)

... just a different perspective on things. We then trundeled on across the lake for an eternity and eventually arrived at Taquile and were faced with a particularly vertical set of 500 stairs leading to the main archway where families were waiting to offer ...

Taquile
May 25, 2008 (41 photos)

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Lake Titicaca/Taquile & Amantani Island 14th June
Jun 14, 2009

... Island for lunch in a local restaurant and we also had the chance to do some shopping in the local weaving cooperatives. Whilst on Taquile island we learnt about the islands unique culture, style of dress and lifestyle. The men of the community do all the ...

Decouverte du lac titicaca et des iles
Mar 7, 2008 (23 photos)

Voyage sur le lac le plus haut du monde

Floating Islands are Coool!
Jul 17, 2008

... and look around.  They have virtually nothing, but they have solar panels so they can have lights at night.  The Isle of Taquile was kind of a letdown.  About 500 steps up (no kidding) a meal of rainbow trout (which I didn´t eat), and 500 ...

Lake Titikaka, Uros, and Taquile
Jun 21, 2008

... longer if they keep on like this. Loads of hands out looking more money for a change. Nice views, but I would not recommend Taquile for a visit - although if it was part of some other tour - like this was - then go for it. Nice relaxed cruise ...

back to port
Jun 30, 2009

We´re back on the impossibly slow tour boat going back to Puno from the lake.  I enjoyed being out on the lake but ít´s been hard not having had a proper handwashing with soap for two days.  I also haven´t seen a toilet that flushed itself; you have ...

Rich colors in the fabric of life
May 3, 2008 (5 photos)

Today we visited the island of Taquile. Like Amantani, the lifestyle is almost entirely agrarian, supplemented by fishing, trade with the mainland, and tourism. The trip required that we walk across the small island from one port to the other, a lovely ...

Isla Taquile
Oct 27, 2009

... .  Dressed in local clothes, we noticed them all about the plaza with their yarn and needles. We spent about 3 hours on Taquile and returned to Puno via boat(3 more hours).  We arrived at 3pm.  After a tasty meal of Alpaca kebobs at a& ...

dernier jour sur titicaca
Sep 18, 2009 (4 photos)

lever a 7h, avec le soleil, et le calme sur amantani, ptit dej...humhum des crepes, du painm mate de coca, cafe prepare gracieusement par la maman dolga ¡¡ petite toilette vite fait a la cuvette,et on decoule pour prendre le bateau, direction les ...

Taquile Island
Dec 5, 2006

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Out on the Lake
Aug 6, 2008

Early start to the day, the whole group got the Tuc Tucs down to the harbour where we stocked up on our offerings to our family we were staying with that night.  3 hour journey to one of the first Islands we visited, Tequile Island.  Here we got ...

Lake Titicaca
Sep 20, 2007

Islands of Lake Titicaca - Taquile, Los Uros (floating islands) ands Amantani

Aug 3, 1988 (1 photos)

Day at The Highest Lake
Mar 29, 2009

... with individuals from the mainland or knitting stuff which they sell to the tourists. The next stop is to the island of Taquile which was arguably the strangest experience to date. Something out of the Prisoner springs to mind whereby it is as if the ...