Sillustani Tour from Puno with Puma Uta Viewpoint
From €23 per person
See availability →This Sillustani tour from Puno is a guided half-day outing: a panoramic stop at the Puma Uta viewpoint, then the chullpas above Umayo Lagoon, with transport and tickets included.
A Sillustani tour from Puno that opens with a view over the city and closes beside a still lagoon. Early in the afternoon you are collected from your hotel in downtown Puno and make a quick halt at the Puma Uta viewpoint, high above town, where a monumental puma sculpture overlooks the roofs of Puno, the nearby hills and, far off, Lake Titicaca.
The road then crosses the altiplano for about 40 minutes, across open grassland where llamas graze beside adobe homesteads, with a gentle climb to 3,900 meters above sea level.
Once you reach Sillustani, a guide leads a trail of roughly 30 minutes on the peninsula. The star attractions are the chullpas: round stone burial towers raised by the Colla and later the Incas, up to 12 meters high, joined without mortar. Along the way you hear who lay inside, the reason the towers get slimmer at the bottom, and what happened to Colla funeral customs after the Incas took over. The towers stand on a ridge above Umayo Lagoon, which mirrors the sky and the hills on calm days.
- Live guide, in English or Spanish
- Entrance tickets to the site
- Transport from and back to your hotel
On the way back you can choose to stop at a farmhouse in a nearby community, where a family shows its daily routine: quinoa dishes, fresh cheese and the care of the animals. Meals are not included, and you are back in Puno by late afternoon.