Lake Pátzcuaro, its placid waters dotted with islands, is one of the highest lakes in the country. Around the lakeshore, several Tarasco villages are located, some of the accessible only by boat.

This picturesque island is found 20 minutes away from the dock. Its name means "corn hair". On its top, a 40 meter high monument was erected in memory of the general Don Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon. In its interior, the painter Ramon Alva de la Canal stamped the life of the hero. The indigenous community, that inhabits it, has conserved in great part the authenticity of its costumes, such as the vigil of the Night of the Dead, ceremony in which the fishermen come out with their butterfly-form nets and boats lighted up with candles. See beautiful pictures here.

Fishing is the main occupation and, although once the main tool for local fishermen, the traditional "butterfly" nets now appear mostly for photographers.

Janitzio the main island of the five you can find in the Patzcuaro lake, where you land after half hour on board the barge that depart from this place's pier.

The holly week carnival and the death's day festivities, this last one is an spectacle internationally famous for it's evening in the cemetery with folklore dances like the old men dance, the fish dance and the butterfly dance.

On the top of the island there is an enormous Morelos' statue (40m high) you can climb up inside the statue to It's right first. Inside the Morelos' statue there are several paintings of the artist Ramón Alba de la Canal.

The typical houses in the Janitzio Island, in the low steps along the hillside is like a painting with the fishermen nets drying to the sun.