🇵🇪 🌿 Lake Titicaca · Amazon · Andean Highlands · 10 Days
🇵🇪 🌿 Lake Titicaca · Amazon · Andean Highlands · 10 Days
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🇵🇪 Lake Titicaca · Amazon · Andean Highlands
Puno · Lake Titicaca · Uros Islands · Taquile · Puerto Maldonado · Tambopata Amazon · Arequipa · Colca Canyon · 10 Days
Gateway → Lake Titicaca
World's Highest Lake → Uros Islands
Floating Reed Islands → Puerto Maldonado
Amazon Gateway → Tambopata
Amazon Reserve → Arequipa
White City → Colca Canyon
World's Deepest Canyon
This is Peru beyond Machu Picchu — a 10-day southern circuit that takes you to the roof of the world, deep into the Amazon basin, and along the edge of one of the planet’s most dramatic canyons. Lake Titicaca at 3,812 metres above sea level is the world’s highest navigable lake, home to the Uros people who have lived on floating reed islands for centuries. From there, the expedition descends to Puerto Maldonado — the gateway to the Tambopata Amazon Reserve, one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth.
Daylite Digital secures your accommodation across this entire southern circuit. All tours, flights, boat excursions, entry fees, and activities are arranged independently by the traveller and paid directly to local operators.
Uros People · Guardians of Lake Titicaca
The Uros are one of the oldest Indigenous peoples of the Lake Titicaca region, with a history that predates the Inca Empire. For centuries they have lived on extraordinary floating islands constructed entirely from totora reeds harvested from the lake. These islands are continuously maintained and rebuilt by each generation, reflecting a remarkable tradition of engineering, adaptation, and resilience that has survived for over a thousand years at 3,812 metres above sea level.
Today, Uros families continue to preserve their cultural identity through traditional fishing practices, reed craftsmanship, boat building, music, storytelling, and community life. The Taquile people of Taquile Island hold a UNESCO-recognised textile tradition — Taquile men knit as a cultural practice, and the island community governs itself by ancient Inca principles of reciprocity and collective responsibility. More than a tourist attraction, the communities of Lake Titicaca represent living Indigenous heritages that continue to thrive on the sacred waters of the world’s highest lake.
Southern Peru is one of the most ecologically and culturally diverse regions on Earth — where Andean civilisations built their world on the shores of a sacred lake, where the Amazon rainforest begins its vast descent to the Atlantic, and where condors ride thermals above canyons carved over millennia.
- 10 days · 9 nights accommodation (tier selected)
Journey Tier: Daily breakfast provided by hotel · Sovereign Tier: Breakfast and selected dinners provided by hotel
All experiences below are paid directly to local operators at point of service.
Optional services paid directly to Daylite Digital at time of booking.
Arrival Puno (3,827m) · collect transport independently · check in to your accommodation · acclimatisation rest · Optional: evening walk along the lakefront — free to explore · overnight Puno
Optional: morning boat departure — fee paid to operator · Uros floating reed islands · meet Uros families · learn about their history and traditional livelihoods · reed boat demonstration · return to Puno · overnight Puno
Optional: full-day boat excursion — fee paid to operator · Taquile Island · hike to the main plaza · Optional: community lunch — paid to operator · observe traditional weaving · return to Puno · overnight Puno
Optional: morning flight Puno to Puerto Maldonado — booked and paid independently · Amazon basin arrival · Optional: transfer to Tambopata lodge by river boat — fee paid to operator · Optional: afternoon jungle orientation walk — guide fee paid to operator · overnight Tambopata Amazon lodge or Puerto Maldonado
Optional: early morning macaw clay lick visit — fee paid to operator · Optional: guided primary forest walk — guide fee paid to operator · Optional: giant otter spotting on Lago Sandoval — fee paid to operator · Optional: piranha fishing — fee paid to operator · overnight Tambopata lodge
Optional: canopy walkway — fee paid to operator · Optional: medicinal plant trail with local guide — guide fee paid to operator · Optional: Madre de Dios river excursion — fee paid to operator · return to Puerto Maldonado · overnight Puerto Maldonado
Optional: morning flight Puerto Maldonado to Arequipa — booked and paid independently · arrival White City · check in to your accommodation · Optional: afternoon walk — free to explore · El Misti volcano views · overnight Arequipa
Optional: Santa Catalina Monastery interior — entry fee paid to operator · Optional: Juanita Mummy Museum — entry fee paid to operator · Optional: San Camilo market — free to explore · Yanahuara viewpoint — free to visit · overnight Arequipa
Optional: Colca Canyon full-day tour — fee paid to operator · Cruz del Cóndor viewpoint · Andean condors soaring on morning thermals · pre-Inca terraces · Optional: La Calera hot springs — entry fee paid to operator · return Arequipa · overnight Arequipa
Morning Arequipa · check out · independent transfer to Rodríguez Ballón International Airport · international connections via Lima · end of Lake Titicaca · Amazon · Andean Highlands Expedition
Expedition
Guesthouse & budget lodge · no breakfast · self-guided days
- 9 nights · guesthouse · budget lodge
- All activities paid independently to operators
Journey
Mid-range hotels · breakfast provided by hotel
- 9 nights · mid-range hotels · comfortable lodge
- Daily breakfast — provided by hotel
- All activities paid independently to operators
Sovereign
Luxury hotels · breakfast and selected dinners provided by hotel
- 9 nights · luxury hotels · premium Amazon eco-lodge
- Daily breakfast — provided by hotel
- Selected dinners — provided by hotel
- All activities paid independently to operators
Dry Season
Peak season · clear skies across the Andes · best condor sightings at Colca · dry Amazon trails · Lake Titicaca at its most vivid · book well in advance
Shoulder Season
Fewer crowds · lower rates · some afternoon rain possible · excellent value with full access to all sites and experiences
Green Season
Wet season · Amazon at its most lush and biodiverse · Titicaca water levels high · Colca Canyon dramatically green · lower prices · some trail closures possible
Peak Wet
Heaviest rainfall · Amazon wildlife activity peaks · Colca Canyon trails may be affected · lowest prices of the year · adventurous travellers only
Reserve Your Peru Expedition
From $2,400 per couple · 10 Days · Accommodation Included
Reserve Your Peru ExpeditionTerms & Conditions
- Pricing per couple sharing · accommodation included as per tier selected
- Expedition: no breakfast · Journey: breakfast provided by hotel · Sovereign: breakfast and selected dinners provided by hotel
- All activity, tour, entry, flight, boat, and meal fees are paid directly to local operators at point of service
- Daylite Digital does not act as a tour operator, transport provider, or travel agent
- International flights to/from Peru not included
- Internal flights Puno–Puerto Maldonado–Arequipa not included · booked and paid independently
- Amazon lodge fees not included · booked and paid independently
- Peru visa requirements are the responsibility of the traveller
- Daylite Ambassador services are optional and paid separately to Daylite Digital
- Travel insurance strongly recommended
- Minimum 30 days advance booking required
- Full payment required to confirm reservation
- Cancellation policy: 50% refund if cancelled 30+ days before departure