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Pirwa Hostels in Puno
Welcome to Pirwa Hostels in Puno
Pirwa hostel in Puno at Lake Titicaca is a cozy backpacker hostel with dormitories and private rooms, all with comfy beds, heating, and 24hr access to hot water; breakfast is included and there´s a kitchen which is free for guests to use at any time. Pirwa Hostel Puno is ideally located only a couple blocks from the main square of Puno, the Plaza de Armas; since it´s nearby Calle Independencia Lima, our budget hostel places you just five minutes from artisanal markets, ATMs and restaurants and cafés. Best of all, our cheap hostel is just 15 minutes by foot from Lake Titicaca Harbor!
Grab a book from the exchange and relax in the patio, hang out in the movie lounge, or sample some drinks at the bar while trading travel tips with other travelers at the in-house bar. DVDs can be rented to watch in the rooms if you feel like staying in one night, and there´s also free wi-fi and internet if you´d like to share your Puno adventures with friends and family. While out exploring Puno, your belongings will be safe thanks to our security lockers, baggage storage service, and warm reception staff on hand 24 hours.
Our backpacker hostel in Puno is run by husband and wife team Jenny and Carlos, who´ll gladly share with you their knowledge of Puno, its surroundings, and attractions. If you´re looking for a hostel in Puno that offers comfortable accommodation, a central location, and friendly service all at cheap prices, Pirwa Hostel in Puno is the choice for you!
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About Puno
Puno is known as the "Capital of Folklore" in Peru, due to its astounding number of brightly costumed dances. Its surrounding scenery is imposing: bordered on one end by massive Lake Titicaca, the world´s highest navigable lake, and mountains along the other. To help plan your stay in Puno, you can make use of the maps and information found in reception as well as the in-house travel desk, where you can arrange for tours, transport, or find answers to your travel questions.
The harbor of Lake Titicaca is only 15 minutes from the hostel by foot. Its cold waters shelter a diverse ecosystem of plants and bright birds and its population includes the Quechua-speaking inhabitants of the islands of Taquile and Amantani, who still cling to their traditional way of life, dress, and community collectivist model. Most famous are the Floating Islands of Uros, built by one of America´s oldest cultures, the Aymara-speaking Uros, using the lake´s prevalent tortora reeds, which also provide shelter, transport, food, and barter material.
Another sight you can´t miss are the ruins of the Sillustani Chullpas, burial towers constructed by the Colla but appropriated by the Inca after the conquest. Golden objects, deformed Colla skulls, and mummies from this site can be found in the Carlos Dreyer Museum in the Plaza de Armas of Puno, which also exhibits other artifacts such as pre-Inca and Inca stone and metalwork, textiles, Aymara pottery, and Spanish founding documents as well as pre-Columbian and colonial art.
Chuchuito Peninsula
One of the oldest towns in the region, Chucuito has been populated for more than 12000 years, having once been the capital of the province and part of both the Lupaca Kingdom of the Aymara and the Inca Empire. South of the city of Puno, its high plateau overlooks countryside farms and the Lake Titicaca. From Atojja Hill you can get astounding views the lake´s beaches and cliffs, the islands of Taquile and Amantani, the Chucro Burial Towers and the ruins of Luquina Chico. Its lake provided some of the gold that would make up the useless ransom paid to the Spanish for the Inca Atahualpa and its attractions include the 16th century renaissance Santo Domingo Church, the 17th century Our Lady of the Assumption, and the Inca Uyo ruins, controversially claimed to have been a fertility temple.
Yavari Ship Museum
The most famous boat on Lake Titicaca is the Yaraví, which was commissioned by the Peruvian government and built in Great Britain in 1861, disassembled and transported by boat, train, and then carried by men and on mule-back across the Andes before finally arriving to the lake. She set sail on Christmas Day in 1870, serving mainly as a mixed-cargo ship despite being a gunship, with the engine fired by llama dung up to 1914. The Yaraví now stays anchored in the port of Lake Titicaca, the world´s oldest single-propeller iron ship and proud owner of the oldest and largest still-functioning Swedish Bolinder motor. This historical monument is now a museum exhibiting the ship´s original fittings and navigational equipment, documents, archives, historical maps, and scale models of the period.
Catedral de Puno
The Cathedral of Puno was built upon the ancient Sapay Kancha (Devil´s Enclosure) with donations from rich miners. An 18th century minor basilica, it is classified as mestizo-baroque due to the inclusion of indigenous plants and other elements in the design of its ornately carved façade. Its interior is wide and simple, with two venerated images adorning its marble altar. One of these, the 'Lord of the Bullet', known as 'Lord of the Quinary' until a bullet was lodged in its shoulder in a clash over the San Luis de Alba mines between Biscayans and Andalusians, is paraded through the streets by locals asking for rain for the farms. Along its walls you´ll also find painting in the Cuzco School and Italian styles, although many paintings and carvings were tragically lost in a 1930 fire.
