Location: A few meters
from the Inca steps, fountain and inside the Inca Garden.
Authenticity: Inca made agricultural terraces, Sun Island
Kallawayas, Aymara house, Reed ship builders, ancient Andean
agricultural tools and weaving instruments.
Value: The largest collection of Sun Island's archaeological
and anthropological items, the largest demo variety of Andean
crops, medicinal herbs and Andean fauna; the only reserve of
its kind available to tourists.
Activities: Participating in an ancient Kallawaya ceremony,
sailing in a RA Replica (the famous reed vessel ) to the Pilkokaina
Inca Palace, participating in manual agricultural work, learning
about Andean agricultural technology, traditional medicine,
ancient healing rituals, reed vessel constructions and transoceanic
epic adventures, Andean weaving techniques, taste of Andean
grains, herbs and tubers harvested at Sun Island's Inca made
terraces and enjoy an autochthonous folkloric demonstration.
Aymara House
A typical islander house where visitors appreciate the authentic
lifestyle of a Sun Island family.
Ekako
Underground Museum
A unique 200 m2 underground museum containing the largest collection
of Sun Island's archeological items, Andean mummies and the
Ekako, abundance God, found precisely on this island.
Pachamama
Terraces
The authentic agricultural Inca Terraces at the Complex contain
the largest demo variety of Andes crops and medicinal herbs.
Apus
and Achachilas Altar
At the far end of the Complex there is an authentic altar from
the Tiwanaku era where visitors participate in an ancient Kallawaya
ceremony.
Andean
Fauna
The Complex is the home of several varieties of llamas, alpacas,
guanacos and vicuñas.
Titikaka
Reed Shipbuilders
Thor Heyerdahl and Kitin Muñoz, both explorers and scientists,
tested several times early migration theories carried on reed
vessels. The Complex has a display center and Shipbuilders describing
construction techniques.
Inti Wata Reed Vessel
A
30 passenger totora reed vessel to redeem ancestral and almost
extinct Titikaka navigation. The only large reed vessel available
in the whole lake, constructed by Celso Arratia one of the natives
who worked with Heyerdahl. Visitors experience an unforgettable
back-to-the-past sail to the Pilkokaina Inca Palace.
Exclusive cultural attraction available only to Catamaran Cruise
Ship clients.
