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01DAY TIWANAKU & PUMA PUNKU BOLIVIA
Starting & ending in Puno-Peru
RATES 2023
PRIVATE TOUR
RUMBO EXPLORA have carefully selected the best private transport options, from Puno-Peru to Tiwanaku in La Paz-Bolivia, 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.
01DAY TOUR TIWANAKU (from Peru)
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| PRICE PER PERSON (SUPERIOR SERVICE) | INCLUSIONS & EXCLUSIONS |
| US$243.00 (based on 02 persons) | Inclusions: Private tourist transportation, english-spanish speaking guide in Tiwanaku, entrance fees, buffet lunch in Tiwanaku village. Note: Peruvian Time (PT), Bolivian Time (BT), 01hour ahead Exclusions: Extras, tips and others not mentioned in the program. |
| US$192.00 (based on 03 persons) | |
| US$151.00 (based on 04 persons) | |
| US$142.00 (based on 05 persons) | |
| On request 06 persons up | |
| Departure Puno – Desaguadero: 06:00am (PT) Arrival in Desaguadero – Peru: 8:30am (PT) Then check-out at Migrations Office of Peru Then check-in at Migrations Office of Bolivia → |
Desaguadero – Tiwanaku: 10:30am (BT) Arrival in Tiwanaku: 11:30am (BT) Guided visit Tiwanaku + buffet lunch Visit local Museum & Puma Punku |
| Return Tiwanaku – Desaguadero: 15:00pm (BT) Arrival in Desaguadero – Bolivia: 16:00pm (BT) Then check-out at Migrations Office of Bolivia → |
Then check-in at Migrations Office of Peru Departure Desaguadero – Puno: 16:00 (PT) Arrival in Puno Peru: 18:30pm (PT) |
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01DAY TOUR TIWANAKU (from Peru)
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| PRICE PER PERSON (ECONOMIC SERVICE) | INCLUSIONS & EXCLUSIONS |
| US$180.00 (based on 02 persons) | Inclusions: Private tourist transportation, english-spanish speaking guide in Tiwanaku, entrance fees, buffet lunch in Tiwanaku village. Note: Peruvian Time (PT), Bolivian Time (BT), 01hour ahead. In the Bolivian side the private transport is local. Exclusions: Extras, tips and others not mentioned in the program. |
| US$138.00 (based on 03 persons) | |
| US$111.00 (based on 04 persons) | |
| US$117.00 (based on 05 persons) | |
| On request 06 persons up | |
| Departure Puno – Desaguadero: 06:00am (PT) Arrival in Desaguadero – Peru: 8:30am (PT) Then check-out at Migrations Office of Peru Then check-in at Migrations Office of Bolivia → |
Desaguadero – Tiwanaku: 10:30am (BT) Arrival in Tiwanaku: 11:30am (BT) Guided visit Tiwanaku + buffet lunch Visit local Museum & Puma Punku |
| Return Tiwanaku – Desaguadero: 15:00pm (BT) Arrival in Desaguadero – Bolivia: 16:00pm (BT) Then check-out at Migrations Office of Bolivia → |
Then check-in at Migrations Office of Peru Departure Desaguadero – Puno: 16:00 (PT) Arrival in Puno Peru: 18:30pm (PT) |
01DAY TOUR TIWANAKU (from Peru)
Puno – Tiwanaku – Puno
DESCRIPTION OF ITINERARY:
DAY 01: PUNO – TIWANAKU – PUNO: Early morning around 6:00 am, a driver and guide will pick you up from the hotel in Puno (Peru) then you will be driven to Tiwanaku (Bolivia). Departure from Puno to Desaguadero (frontier), on the way passing by the towns of Chucuito (fertility temple), Plateria, Acora (inca tombs), Ilava, Hayumarca (portal gate), Juli (colonial churches), Pomata, Zepita. Arrival in Desaguadero town (148km from Puno), where is located the Migrations Office (Peru & Bolivia) for making the check-out and check-in. Then we continue with our trip in direction to Tiwanaku, passing on the way the village to Guaqui. Finally we arrive in Tiwanaku located at 3845masl (45km from Desaguadero and 74km from La Paz-Bolivia), on the road connecting Desaguadero-La Paz. Tiwanaku reflects in its excellent work in pottery such as keros (ceremonial glasses), the huaco-portraits (three-dimensional portrait of a human face in a vessel) likewise textiles, architectural constructions with an astronomical orientation. According some studies Tiwanaku could be might be the lost Atlantis, as it is the second oldest culture in South America after Pucara (Peru); it has the status of Cultural heritage of the Humanity for UNESCO. Visit the museum lithic and ceramic, the archaeological site of Tiwanaku composed of seven architectural constructions as Kalasasaya, underground temple, pyramid of Acapana, Kantatallita, Kerikala, Putuni and Puma Punku. Formerly known as Taypikala, that in Aimara language means Central Stone. This culture stablished 1,000 BC, and it disappeared by 1,200 D.C. Tiwanaku has 3 periods of evolution of their culture which are: The villager, Urban and Expansive. Lunch at restaurant in Tiwanaku village. Then a return trip to Desaguadero (Migrations Office of Bolivia & Peru) for making the check-out & check-in, finally connection to Puno. In the afternoon around 18:00 pm, arrival in Puno and then transfer to the hotel.
WHAT IS INCLUDED: Private transportation from Puno (Peru) to Desaguadero (frontier) Migrations Office of Peru & Bolivia, private transportation Desaguadero to Tiwanaku (Bolivia), english-spanish speaking guide in Tiwanaku, entrance fees, guided visit ruins of Tiwanaku, Ceramic museum & Puma Punku, buffet lunch, private transportation Tiwanaku (Bolivia) to Desaguadero (frontier) Migrations Office of Peru & Bolivia, private transportation Desaguadero to Puno (Peru). Besides pre-trip information + organization and all local sales taxes. There are no hidden extras in our prices.
NOT INCLUDED: Additional charge for pick-up and drop-off for hotels located out of Puno city, as Hotel Posada del Inca, Casa Andina Private Collection, Xima, Libertador, Mirador del Titikaka. Extras, tips and others not mentioned in the program.
IMPORTANT: Our land transportation vehicles have comfortable seats + oxygen & first aid kit + panoramic windows + 2 types of insurances as Certificate of Statutory Accident Insurance Transit SOAT, besides has vehicle Insurance Policy to all risks in record exclusive for foreign. 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 specificatications: Our modern & new tourist transportation vehicles: Mercedes Benz & Renault (10 to 19 seats), Minibus (25 to 30 seats), Buses (40 seats) | Technical specificatications: Few tour operators work with good tourist transportation vehicles as: Mercedes Benz & Renault (10 to 19 seats), Minibus (25 to 30 seats), Buses (40 seats) |
| First Aid Kit & Services: Oxygen & first aid kit, telephone charger and maps of Colca valley, which led us to be one of the best tour operators in the southern Perú. | First Aid Kit & Services: Few tour operators provide this service. |
| Insurance policy: Our tourist transportation vehicles have national permit circulation and 2 types of insurance (Certificate of Statutory Accident Insurance Transit SOAT, besides has vehicle Insurance Policy to all risks in record) | Insurance policy: Most of tour operators work with vehicles which have local permits only. |
| 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 are not paying their guides or drivers, hiring them without experience. We are sure that you will be forced to buy souvenirs during the journeys 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.
VISAS / PASSPORTS:
If you travel to Bolivia, visa is not necessary for U.S Citizens and most other nationalities. If you hold a passport from another country, we will send all information necessary otherwise check with your local consulate or embassy about requirements for travel to Bolivia. All passengers traveling internationally are required to have a passport. Please carry proper identification on you and do not leave in your suitcase or hotel room. In most of places like airports, train-bus stations, frontier or at any other check points you must to show passport, because some countries have laws that require you to carry your passport with you at all times and anywhere. If you are in any doubt please contact the nearest Bolivian Embassy.