Arequipa

Location: Coast and sierra (Andes) at the south of Peru.
Area: 24 458 Sq miles.
Capital: Arequipa (7660 feet above sea level)
The lowest altitude: 30 feet above sea level (Punta de Bombón)
The highest altitude: 16,110 feet above sea level (Mirador de Volcanes - Caylloma)
Climate: Annual average temperature is of 68 ºF (the highest altitude of 104 ºF and the lowest one of 39.2 ºF). The rainy season starts on December and it lasts until March.

How to get to Arequipa?
By air: Daily flights from Lima - Arequipa (50 minutes approx)
Cusco – Arequipa (30 minutes approx)
Juliaca – Arequipa (30 minutes approx)
Tacna – Arequipa (30 minutes approx)

By land: From Lima – Arequipa, 1003 km through the road Panamericana sur (14 hours by car approx). For tourists that go to Cusco by land, the rout is 279 miles, (10 hours by car approx).

Information

• About Peru
• Cusco Sacred city
• Policies inca trail booking

Tradicional Tourism

• City Tour
• Sacred Valley
• South Valley
• Inca Jungle
• Machupicchu 1 Day
• Machupicchu 2 Days

Trekking Tourism

• Inka Trail 2 Days
• Inka Trail 4 Days
• Salkantay 5 Days
• Lares Machupicchu 4 Days
• Choquequirao 4 Days
• Choquequirao 8 Days
• Ausangate 5 Days

Puno

• Puno Full Days
• Titicaca Lake Tour 2 Days

Arequipa

• Arequipa Full Day
• Colca Canyon 2 Days

Ica -Nazca

• Chauchilla Full Day
• Nazca Full Day

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Arequipa Full day

The Region of Arequipa is characterized for having the deepest canyons in Peru, as it is the Colca (3400 meters of depth/11512 feet of depth) and Cotahuasi (3535 meters of depth/11598 feet of depth). Colca comes from the Quechua word for " granero" or storehouse. The canyon is carved by the by the Colca river and its length is covered with hundreds pre-Hispanic and Hispanic terraces.

FIRST DAY: - Arequipa

In the evening we visit the Main Square, the Cathedral, convents, churches and beautiful vaults of the church Company of Jesus, in the colonial district of Yanahuara, with a magnificent view of Misti volcano. Next, we are going to visit Saint Catherine monastery, considered as unique of its kind in South America. It was founded in 1580 and opened to the public in 1970. It has narrow plazas and gardens with Spanish names that remains us the old districts of Seville and Granada in Spain.

IT INCLUDES:

• All entrances as it is mentioned in the itinerary.
• Tourist bus.
• English/Spanish guide.

IT DOES NOT INCLUDED

• Meals