Communautés et villages de la Vallée sacrée

At the Maras salt pans, travel back in time and study the natural Inca salt terraces on the slope of Mount Qaqawiñay, from which you'll take in a striking Andean landscape. The Incas discovered that salt water flowed down the slope and began digging small basins of 5 m² each, allowing the water to sit and evaporate, leaving only the salt behind. Fed by channels, these basins are still used for ...

The Parrot Clay Lick in the Peruvian Amazon is one of the best places to observe dozens of these spectacular birds. Clay licks, or “colpa”, are cliffs along riverbanks formed by erosion processes that have produced soils rich in mineral salts. They can reach up to 50 metres in height and 500 metres in length, and attract numerous spectacular tropical birds such as parrots, macaws ...

Puno is your starting point for discovering Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake, where the light is exceptional and the colours have an almost unreal purity. Titicaca is a remarkable inland sea dotted with islands inhabited by local communities: the floating islands of the Uros community, built entirely of reeds; Taquile Island, the largest island on Lake Titicaca, whose community ...