Once we arrive in Arequipa, we will be pick up and transfer to the hotel. After check-in at the hotel, we will have free morning for shopping or resting.

**recommended to arrive before 11am**

Afternoon:. Arequipa Mirabus tour

In the afternoon, pick up from the hotel in Arequipa around 2pm to start this interesting tour known as Mirabus panoramic de Arequipa, we begin with a visit to the architectural monuments and beautiful natural viewpoints that surround the white city. Then we will go to the outskirts of the city where we will first visit the beautiful Sachaca viewpoint, which will offer a beautiful natural landscape of Arequipa and volcanoes. Then we will go to the Mission of the Founder, a beautiful colonial building where the founder of the city of Arequipa García Manuel de Carvajal lived in the 15th century.

Finally we travel through spectacular Andean landscapes and arrive at the Sabandia mill, an impressive construction based on volcanic rock known as sillar, where you can see an old stone mill that was built in 1785. End of the tour and return to the Plaza de Armas de Arequipa around 6pm.

Overnight in Arequipa

We leave Arequipa between 2:30-3:00am, will drive for 3 hours northwest behind the Chachani to Chivay, capital of the Colca Canyon. Where we will have breakfast.

We continue driving for 2 hours at the most famous spot in the Colca Canyon “La Cruz del Condor”. This is where we see the depth of the canyon and the flight of the Condor. The area has beautiful typical villages like Yanque and Maca, colonial churches, friendly people with dresses and hats with typical sewing, and hundreds of pre-Inca terraces that are still in use with Andean crops such as corn, quinoa and amaranth. Already in Chivay at noon, there is an optional visit to the hot springs of La Calera, with pools that have a water temperature of 40 ° C / 104 ° F.

Once in Chivay we will have a traditional lunch and after lunch we will travel to back to Arequipa. We stop on the way, on the highest step: the viewpoint of the volcanoes and snow-capped mountains in Patapampa (4,800m). Later we will see wild vicunas, alpacas and llamas in the national reserve of Pampa Cañahuas and some birds like flamingos, ibis, Andean geese, ducks and eagles Andean Quechua called “Kara Kara”. Finally we arrive at the city of Arequipa at the end of the afternoon, at approximately 17:00.

Overnight in Arequipa

Pick up from our accommodation around 8am and transfer to the ashlar quarries in the district of Cerro Colorado. In a time of arpo. 30 minutes from the center of Arequipa arrive at this place known as the Quarries Añashuayco, in this place we can see where it is that the stonemasons take Ignimbrite then patiently manage to develop the Sillar, we will explain in detail the preparation thereof and also they learn the story behind the Sillar. In due time we return to the City of Arequipa and will arrive around 1pm

Free afternoon to enjoy the city or visit museuns.

Overnight in Arequipa

After breakfast at the hotel, transfer to the airport for your departure flight.

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