Hostal Inti Karka

Lake Titicaca


The cheapest lodging in town is this friendly lakefront hostel with ultra-basic rooms. Maximo, the owner, can take you to the neighboring islands. He also runs a small gallery for guests, called Titi Museum, which has English-language descriptions of reed boat building techniques and modern-day reed boat expeditions.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Lake Titicaca attractions

1. Museo de Pariti

9.97 MILES

The stunning pots and ch’alladores (vases) found on Isla Pariti in 2004 are now on display at this tiny museum near the excavation site. Exhibits here…

2. Puerta de la Luna

23.44 MILES

There’s a small gateway carved with zoomorphic designs near the western end of Tiwanaku, informally known as the Puerta de la Luna.

3. Puerta del Sol

23.5 MILES

At the far northwest corner of Kalasasaya is Tiwanaku’s best-known structure, the 10-ton Puerta del Sol. This megalithic gateway was carved from a single…

4. Templete Semisubterráneo

23.53 MILES

East of the main entrance to Kalasasaya, a stairway leads down into the Templete Semisubterráneo, an acoustic, red-sandstone pit structure measuring 26m…

5. Kalasasaya

23.53 MILES

North of the Akapana Pyramid is Kalasasaya, a partially reconstructed 130m-by-120m ritual-platform compound with walls constructed of huge blocks of red…

6. Putuni

23.54 MILES

West of Kalasasaya is a 55m-by-60m rectangular area known as Putuni. It is surrounded by double walls and you can see the foundations of several tombs…

7. Kantatayita

23.6 MILES

The heap of rubble at the eastern end of the Tiwanaku site is known as Kantatayita. Archaeologists are still trying to deduce some sort of meaningful plan…

8. Akapana Pyramid

23.63 MILES

Climb the hill up to Tiwanaku’s most outstanding structure, the partially excavated Akapana pyramid, which was built on an existing geological formation…