Lake Titicaca, Peru is located in the department of Puno bordering Bolivia in the Andes Mountains. According to Inca religion it is where the first humans emerged to create the Inca empire.

Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable lake in the world. There are about 40 man made islands inhabited by the Uros people.

is a geological wonder formed during the pre-ice age about sixty million years ago. The lake was formed when massive earthquakes shook the splitting the range in two and forming a hollow that eventually got filled with water from the melting glaciers, creating bodies of water and ultimately rivers and the immense Lake Titicaca.
 

Lake Titicaca feeds from melting glacier water
According to one of the legends of the , the first Inca Manco Capac and his wife Mama Ocllo emerged from the depths of Lake Titicaca on the sacred …

Lake Titicaca and its islands play an important role in Inca mythology. It is the birth place of the and it is where the mythic journey to starts.
Uros Islands
The unique Uros Islands of are a group of 41 manmade floating islands located just 5km east of harbor. They are the top tourist attraction as there is nothing like them to be found anywhere else in the world.
To visit the islands you have to go to the dock in where there are many tour boat operators …