One of the world’s most remote hotels in Lake Titicaca

Timesonline’s Jeremy Lazell travels the World in search for remote hotels and finds one of the farthest in Lake Titicaca. Managed by Casa Andina, Suasi Island hotel is a beautiful adobe-and-reed hotel located in the small 106-acre island of Suasi, one of the most charming within the whole Lake Titicaca. Here’s what Lazell says:

More than 12,500ft above sea level, surrounded by Lake Titicaca, in the Altiplano of Peru, Suasi Island hotel doesn’t make much noise about being on what must be the highest island in the world, but then shouting’s not really its style. The country’s only entirely solar-powered hotel, Suasi Island is all about the peace: so remote, it is reached only after a 3½hour crossing from Puno town (or a bone-rearranging drive around the lake’s northern shores), this is a seriously mind-clearing refuge. Especially if you book yourself the hotel’s Andean Cottage, a two-bedroom stone and adobe lakeside shack with mighty views across the lake. I say shack, but this is no Scottish bothy: instead, it has its own pier, a butler, a wood-burning stove and enough colonial touches to thrill a conquistador.

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