Trekking in Arequipa

Description Adventure Trekking Tour in Arequipa

With the Adventure Trekking Tour in Arequipa or “Arequipa Trekking”, you will be able to know its historical center, the convent of Santa Catalina and surroundings. Visit the sillar quarries, this white and pink volcanic stone that makes it the owner of the title of White City and enjoy the countryside around Chivay and crown your visit appreciating the flight of the majestic Andean condor. This tour is ideal for those who want to know Arequipa inside and out.

The touch of color in the city tour Arequipa is given precisely by a monastery located in the heart of the White City. With its two hectares, this authentic citadel is completely different from the European convents and monasteries. In the middle of the 16th century, the viceroy of Peru, Francisco de Toledo visited Arequipa city tour. During his stay, he was informed that the population fervently desired a monastery, so he granted the license to found the Monastery of Private Nuns of the Order of St. Catherine of Siena.

THE VALLEY OF AÑASHUAYCO, is located in the district of Uchumayo, at 2,120 meters above sea level. The Añashuayco Quarries is the place where the emblematic sillar is extracted. The white volcanic stone that is used in the construction of colonial buildings in the Arequipa region, here is located precisely the route of the sillar that you can not miss.

The Colca Canyon adventure, catalogued as the deepest canyon in America, reaches 4,160 meters at its maximum point, in the town of Canco. It has on its right bank the Chila Mountain Range (Bomboya, Serpregina, Mismi, Quehuisha) and on the other side are the Hualca Hualca, Sabancaya and Ampato. In the distance you can see the Ubinas volcano and the beautiful Coropuna.

It is an adventure of Mirador de la Cruz del Condor, from here you can see the canyon in all its splendor. It is also a strategic point to observe the gliding of the emblematic condor, a millenary bird of great size, which flies through the air taking advantage of the ascending thermal currents.

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Adventure in Arequipa

MAIN POINTS OF VISIT 

• Arequipa (2,335 masl)
• Añashuayco Valley (1,969 masl)
• Chivay (3,635 masl)
• Cruz del Condor viewpoint (3,800 masl)

Day 1: Arequipa – Historic Center – Mirador De Yanahuara – Plaza De Armas – Cathedral Basilica – Santa Catalina Monastery – Arequipa

• 14.00 hrs Pick up from the HOTEL in the circuit of the Plaza de Armas.
• The tour will begin with a visit to the district of Carmen Alto. From the viewpoint, we will be able to appreciate in all its imposing figure the three volcanoes that surround the white city of Arequipa: Misti (5,800 meters), Chachani (6,000 meters) and Pichu Pichu (5,300 meters), as well as the beautiful countryside with its terraces.
• In Yanahuara, we will go down to visit the square, church and cloisters of the traditional and colonial district, with its large houses and typical alleys made with the typical white volcanic ashlar made stone and is the reason why Arequipa tour has the nickname of “White City”.
• We will continue entering the Historical Center, declared by UNESCO as Cultural Patrimony of Humanity, we will visit the region of Arequipa, surrounded by its three granite portals with brick and lime vaults, and the central fountain with a beautiful bronze fountain of three plates crowned with the figure of a soldier of the XVI century, called “El Tuturutu”.
• Then we will see the Cathedral Basilica, considered one of the first religious monuments of neoclassical style, destroyed by fire in 1844 and rebuilt in 1868. Its façade is 107 meters long and is decorated with 70 classical style columns, two towers and two bronze medallions.
• We will visit the Convent of the Society of Jesus of the Jesuit order, maximum expression of the religious architecture where its church (year 1573) and the polychrome Chapel of San Ignacio de Loyola stand out, as well as its cloisters with arches carved in ashlar. Its walls, domes and pilasters show an exuberant baroque style and the altars and altarpieces are covered with gold leaf.
• Finally we will pass by the Monastery of Santa Catalina (1580), a citadel built in ashlar with an area of 20 thousand m2.

Hotel: CORREGIDOR

BREAKFAST – HOTEL / LUNCH & DINNER – PASSENGER

Day 2: Arequipa – Añashuayco Valley – Arequipa

• 07.50 hrs We will pick you up at your hotel, in the circuit of the Plaza de Armas.
• 08.00 hrs We begin our journey to the Route of the Sillar that is a tourist tour arequipa tour with a lot of history and living culture, we visit quarries and areas where the sillar originated. We will make a stop at the Añashuayco Quarry; which we will reach in 45 minutes approx.
• At the moment it is in exploitation, the quarrymen make their work from very early; in the place we will be able to appreciate an immense excursion of canyon with farallones (walls of ignimbrite) that have several meters of height, formed by the extraction for the formation of the ashlars. At this point we will tell you the history of the ashlar, the elaboration and the use that has always been given to it.
• In this quarry you will be able to appreciate a Mega carving of the Church of the Company of Jesus made by the stonemasons themselves. Also, we will have the opportunity to talk with the workers who perform this hard work and we can experience cutting one of their stone blocks.
• Afterwards, we will go to the Quebrada de Culebrillas, which is located 30 minutes away from Añashuayco. Arriving at this point we will make a walk of approximately 20 minutes inside the small canyon that was formed by the passage of water, which has walls of 15 to 20 meters, as we go into it the walls of the canyon are increasing in height.
• At the end of the walk we will be able to observe petroglyphs made by the Wari culture more than a thousand years ago. Before returning to the city of Arequipa we will observe the Apachetas, stone formations placed one on top of the other that are a symbol of gratitude to nature.
• 12.00 hrs Return to the respective hotel. Afternoon free for shopping or stroll through the historic center.

Hotel: CORREGIDOR

BREAKFAST, LUNCH and DINNER – PASSENGER

Day 3: Arequipa – Chivay – Baños La Calera – Arequipa

• 07.50 hrs We will pick you up at your hotel, in the circuit of the Plaza de Armas.
• 08.00 hrs We begin our journey to the Route of the Sillar that is a tourist site tour Arequipa with a lot of history and living culture, we visit quarries and areas where the sillar originated. We will make a stop at the Añashuayco Quarry; which we will arrive in 45 minutes approx.
• At the moment it is in exploitation, the quarrymen make their work from very early; in the place of city tour Arequipa we will be able to appreciate an immense canyon with cliffs (walls of ignimbrite) that have several meters of height, formed by the extraction for the formation of the ashlars. At this point we will tell you the history of the ashlar, the elaboration and the use that has always been given to it.
• In this quarry you will be able to appreciate a Megatallado of the Church of the Company of Jesus of Arequipa tour that was made by the stonemasons themselves. Also, we will have the opportunity to talk with the workers who perform this hard work and we can experience cutting one of their stone blocks.
• Afterwards, we will move to the excursion Quebrada de Culebrillas, which is located 30 minutes away from Añashuayco. Arriving at this point we will make a walk of approximately 20 minutes inside the small canyon that was formed by the passage of water, which has walls of 15 to 20 meters, as we go into it the walls of the canyon are increasing in height.
• At the end of the Arequipa Trekking we will be able to observe petroglyphs made by the Wari culture more than a thousand years ago. Before returning to the city we will observe the Apachetas, stone formations placed one on top of the other that are a symbol of gratitude to nature.
• 12.00 hrs Return to the respective hotel. Free afternoon for shopping or strolling through the historic center.

Hotel: COLCA INN

BREAKFAST – HOTEL / LUNCH & DINNER – PASSENGER

Day 4: Arequipa – Rio Chili – Arequipa

• The COLCA CANYON, is located to the northeast of the Arequipa region at 3,600 meters above sea level, very close to the Ampato and Sabancaya volcanoes, is the Colca Canyon excursion, considered one of the deepest in the world, reaching approximately 4,160 meters deep.
• The COLCA VALLEY is one of the most extraordinary destinations in the country. Throughout the area you can see colorful pre-Inca cultivated terraces, and in the Cruz del Condor you can appreciate the majestic flight of the condors.
• 06.00 hrs After breakfast we will leave towards the Mirador de la Cruz del Condor, travel time 2 h. where we will observe the majestic flight of the condors and the depth of the canyon for 1 hour.
• Three of its major habitats are located in the south of Peru, in the Colca Canyon – AREQUIPA, in the Mayobamba Canyon and in Chonta – CUSCO.
• The Incas believed that the CONDOR WAS IMMORTAL. According to the myth, when the animal feels that it is getting old and that its strength is running out, it lands on the highest and most protruding peak of the mountains, folds its wings, picks up its legs and falls to the bottom of the ravines, where its reign ends. This death is symbolic, since with this act the condor returns to the nest, to the mountains, from where it is reborn towards a new cycle, a new life.
• The CONDOR symbolized strength, intelligence and exaltation. It was an animal respected by all those who lived in the Andes since times before the discovery of America, since it not only brought good and bad omens, but it was also responsible for the sun to rise every morning, because with its energy it was able to take the star and raise it over the mountains initiating the life cycle.
• On the way back to Chivay we will visit the villages of Pinchollo, Maca, Achoma and Yanque, where we will observe typical dances of the area, as well as the models, colonial churches and terraces.
• 13.00 hrs We will board the return bus.
• 19.00 hrs Arrival approx. to the city of Arequipa.

Hotel: CORREGIDOR

BREAKFAST – HOTEL / LUNCH & DINNER – PASSENGER

Day 5: Transfer Hotel – Airport

• At the agreed time, transfer from the hotel to the Arequipa Airport.
• Flight AREQUIPA/CUSCO.

BREAKFAST – HOTEL / LUNCH and DINNER – PASSENGER