 Five
star Inca Utama Hotel and Spa started as a modest project ten years
ago and has grown into a tourism complex highlighting the Andean
cultures. Today it is a 65-room hotel divided into two buildings
formed of white stone with terracotta bricks and roofing. The original
low main building houses reception, an elevator and guest rooms,
and the new high-rise colonial towers provides additional accommodations
and its own elevator as well. The hotel is situated in the town
of Huatajata directly on the banks of famous Lake Titicaca. There
is a fully-equipped spa, complete with saunas, massage, hydrotherapy,
mud and salt baths, and other traditional natural medicine-of-the-Andes
treatments. The Sumaj Untavi Restaurant is one of the hotel's two
restaurants featuring Bolivian cuisine, with nightly Pena folkloric
presentations. The other restaurant is the Choza Nautica, in a thatched-roof
building built out over the water and offering spectacular vistas
of the lake. There is also a cozy bar-lounge complete with fireplace,
over-stuffed chairs and couches, and TV with an interesting educational
video collection. In addition to lodging and the spa, the Inca Utama
Hotel includes a museum dedicated to the life of the Bolivian people.
It tracks the history of the country, and in particular the Lake
Titicaca region, ending with an encounter with a spiritual natural
medicine doctor and fortune teller. There is also an Andean Eco
Village showing the authentic traditions and cultures of the local
people, mud igloos and floating islands depicting the Urus Chipaya
culture, a handicraft village, an altiplano museum, an Andean fauna
exhibit, a native chapel and finally the Alapacha Native Observatory.
It is, in short, a complex recreating the traditions of the Bolivian
culture and a show of Bolivian knowledge and nature. |
Front Entrance
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Reception
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View from Front
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Aerial View of Complex
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View from Lake
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Twin Room
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