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Situated over 3800 meters high, Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world and one of the legendary sites of South America. Heir to ancient traditions and myths, surrounded by mountains and dotted with islands, is an invitation to discover the beauty and mystery of the Bolivian highlands.

An open water surface in the highlands, where altitude breath away, keeps the secret of the origin of the Inca empire, the source of a culture that continues to cast its light, after years of darkness, of the civilization that was imposed. Lake Titicaca, in the past revered by the Incas and today considered one of the purest places in the world is the origin of this rule. Legends abound: one says that the Sun and Moon took refuge in its waters, in the dark, during the days of the flood, and there were the gods who gave birth to the world. They also had the people of the Inca empire that one day the Inca Manco Capac and his sister and consort, Mama Ocllo, left the lake with the mandate of his father, the Sun, found the empire uniting the indigenous cultures in the name of peace and civilization. That empire was the empire, which had in this region today shared Titicaca between Bolivia and Peru, a natural treasure which to raise llamas and alpacas, growing quinoa, potatoes and coffee. In this “your” or region of the empire, also the bowels of the mountains were rich in gold and silver, the metal that the Incas offerings to the gods … conquerors and kings.