Arequipa city - valley 2 days

First day: Arequipa city ( 2330 m a s l - 7544 feet a s l ), city and countryside tours

Juanita mummy museum ( a offered girl in a very honorous way in order to calm the volcanoes )

Carmen Alto for observing the city valley, Yanahuara ( a typical mestizo district that comes from the colonial

Sachaca ( a tower for the complete view of the city ). In its lowest part, we are at 2250 m a s l - 7380 feet a s l.

light clothing, sun protection ( cream, glasses...) water, comfortable shoes & camera,

*7:00-10:00 Beginning and travel towards the coast sand desert, we go down in altitude.

passing by some green irrigations like oasis , flooded by the water taken from mountain's rivers ( like Colca )

and dams systems, developing good agriculture and cattle raising. Stop in Majes irrigation ( 12 000 Hs ) for tasting

*10:00-11:30 Visit in “Toro Muerto” ( “Deth bull” ), one of the biggest deposit with petroglyphes in the world, for

observing the great variety of representations of animals, dancers, geometrical figures and otherson in more

than 5000 volcanic rocks. They were made out by a very important military pre-inca culture: Wari ( Vth and Xth

*14:30-15:30 We continue on the trip through the green valley: nice landscapes and typical valley's towns,

*16:00-17:00: Visit in the Jurassic park (dinosaurs prints of 150 millions years ago ). Oswaldo, a local boy, discovered

light clothing, sun protection ( cream, glasses...) water, comfortable shoes & camera,

It's recommended for all these tours to have "change" for buying little things.

AREQUIPA CITY ( The grand south-east of Arequipa: The "loncco" route (villages and the countryside ) VALLEY 2 DAYS / 1 NIGHT

The "Loncco" route is a stretch circuit full of contrasts of colors by villages in points that seem to remain between the Inca and colonial eras:
Traditions (such the parties), people, intensive agriculture, the breeding of cattle ( cows , horses and sheeps ), the good weather , gentle mountains, the extreme tranquility and pure always green nature like an oasis : intensive irrigation fields irrigated by a vast network of water channels.

This area is full of underground water sources and almost completely surrounded by archaeological steps of intensive agriculture ( also green everywhere ).

This road is created from the original disposition of picturesque towns that are conserved from the beginning of the colony, and they are always separated by large areas of countryside where farmers continue rudes and of good eating. This great area is the place where they interchange life, culture , products and happy parties; also having the opportunity of traveling to the rich sub-tropical valleys of the south and the coast through these places. They are called "lonccos" ( Former Arequipeñans who speak "loncco", a still existing dialect , a mixture of Spanish, Quechua and the disappeared language of the province: the Puquina (a pre-Inca local kingdom before the XIth century) .

*7:30-9:30 The way of the pre-inca terraces towards the springs of fresh water=walking by Sabandía valley, over

2380 m a s l-7806 feet a s l. We make this walk by the back valley of the main one: Yumina where we find some

Then we return to the departure point by car for beginning the trip to the other towns of this part of the city, passing

by Characato, a typical flat countryside village, over the level of the downtown ( at 12 km ), surrounded by a very

*9:45-10:45: The way to the desert or green out, towards the limits of the city and passing by Yarabamba: a small oasis

town. Arrival at Quequeña, an oasis at the mountain, just some hundreds meters more in alttitude than the

departure. Stop for appreciating this small mountain village located over a hill among colorful mountains, after

ascending a picturesque narrow and so sloped way. In this short space we find int the same town its main square

full of tall and more than 150 years old's trees, with its church, one of the smallest and most typical ones from the

*10:45-11:30 The way to Sogay, one of the furthest, smallest and most well conserved town from the pre-inca and

colonial time in Arequipa region, located in the middle of a great extended territory of countryside and agriculture

*11:00-12:00: Walk to the water falls and a bit of old rock art. The beauty of this way is the good variation of

landscapes, passing by dry gullies and montains and finding green and water everywhere.

It's possible of not taking this last tour and choising the left way, passing in this way through Mollebaya, another

village with a very extended territory of countryside with a few houses and the church , one of the smallest and oldest

of the region; for continuing ascending and arriving at the small Polobaya, separated by desert and very close to the

Pichu Pichu volcano (a large chain of volcanoes to the eastest point ) with the opportunity to visit important pure

The second day, it's possible to pass a nice morning taking a walk by Sabandía resort since another farm village:

Paucarpata, a disitrict on the top of a small hill which is completely covert by steps and has in the middle a opened

square with some so tall pam trees and one of the long churches in Peru and one of the most typical from the XVIIIth

century. We begin at 8:00 hour by the green way passing among so many green intensif agricultural fields and

terraces, for crossing the short river and arriving at the back valley ( Yumina and its springs ).

The advantage of this tour is not passing so much time by car and ending it earlier.

light clothing, sun protection ( cream, glasses...) water, comfortable shoes & camera,

*7:00-10:00 Beginning and travel towards the coast sand desert, we go down in altitude.

passing by some green irrigations like oasis . Before the 60's there was just desert,

and after that, a great project for constructing channels and dams began, for conducting

the water from the mountain's rivers like Colca to irrigate the desert developing the

agriculture and cattle raising. Stop in Majes irrigation ( 12 000 Hs ). for tasting milk

products and others ( toilet ). In this area we are at 1800 m a s l - 5904 feet a s l

*10:00-11:30 Visit in “Toro Muerto” ( “Deth bull” ), one of the biggest deposit with

petroglyphes in the world, for observing the great variety of representations of

animals, dancers, geometrical figures on just some of more than 5000 volcanic rocks

made out by a very important military pre-inca culture: Wari ( Vth and Xth centuries )

The rock ( dacita ) over the wide sand gully above the level of Majes valley.

*4:00-4:50: Visit in the Jurassic park (dinosaurs prints of 150 millions years ago ).

light clothing, sun protection ( cream, glasses...) water, comfortable shoes & camera,

It's recommended for all these tours to have "change" for buying little things.