Arequipa – Colca Valley Overnight Condors: Arequipa was recognized as a city in 1541 Throughout its history, Arequipa has also been home to prominent thinkers and politicians. Today, visitors can enjoy the spectacular neo-Renaissance Cathedral, the stunning Santa Catalina Convent and colonial mansions and museums, all of which is reason enough to visit Arequipa. The Colca Valley is without doubt the best known, both in Peru and abroad. Just four hours northeast of the city, the Colca boasts some of the most stunning landscapes in Peru: superb terraces, snowy peaks, dizzying canyons and towns dating from the XVI century. Visitors to the Colca Valley will surely be fascinated by the narrow streets and richly decorated churches. The Colca is also a paradise for lovers of adventure sports.

The Colca Canyon are four areas prioritized by the MINCETUR for development of rural tourism in Arequipa: Sibayo Yanque Tapay Coporaque. In these locations, we have developed various products that are related to the potential of the place: Tapay is adventure destination; Coporaque Tourism “rest”, as it offers rides and hot springs; Yanque known for its culture and tradition; Sibayo and holds the “living culture.” Most CRT ventures districts Sibayo Yanque Coporaque are linked with hosting services and experiential tourism, although there are some related to the sale of handicrafts. The tourism business is a sideline that is gradually gaining more importance among people.

• Type: Traditional
• Destinations visited: Arequipa City Tour, Excursion to Colca Canyon
• Duration:-4 days / 3 nights
• Price us $ 00.00

Trip Summary:

• Tours Day 1: Arequipa hotel transfer – City Tour
• Tours Day 2: Excursion to the Colca Canyon
• Tours Day 3: Transfer to airport

notes:

• Prices for tours hotels are based on double occupancy.
• Daily departures.
• Special discounts for groups and travel agencies.
• Sharing service.

ITINERARY OF TRAVEL TO PERU

Tours Day 1:

Transfer to Hotel Arequipa – City Tour Arequipa

Reception and transfer from airport to hotel by our representative. At approximately 02:00 pm city tour including Santa Catalina. Convent was largely restored to a better public appeal, keeping your plant and original features. The small streets and cloisters are full of colorful flowers and the walls are painted in fresh hues. The narrow streets lead to different parts of the convent going through picturesque sites, living and sleeping sites with original furniture. Overnight at the hotel of your choice.

Tours Day 2:

Excursion to the Colca Canyon Arequipa

Breakfast around 08:00 am. Tour to the Colca Canyon, the Colca Canyon is the main attraction of the Arequipa region and also one of the most important in Peru. The Colca is an open, fertile and populous valley, characterized by beautiful agricultural terraces and a dozen picturesque villages where Collaguas Indians maintain their customs. Lunch. Further down the valley is closed and transformed into a deep, narrow canyon, which can be admired from around Cabanaconde. Overnight at Colca hotel of your choice.

Tours Day 3:

Excursion to the Colca Canyon to return to Arequipa

Breakfast in the morning at 06:00 am approximately begin our trip to the Cruz del Condor, the Condor is recognized as the largest and heaviest flying bird on the planet. And that presents greater wing area. Adults can measure up to 142 cm tall, and between 270 and 330 cm wingspan, and weigh 11 to 15 kg for males and 8-11 kg females. It is one of the birds that fly at higher altitudes, using vertical thermal updrafts of warm air to relatively easily climb 7000 meters; then you can fly for hundreds of miles territory planning almost without moving wings spread. Return to Arequipa at about 04:30 pm, transfer to hotel.

Tours Day 4:

Transfer to airport, Arequipa

Breakfast, transfer from hotel to airport in Arequipa.

IMPORTANT: “Not responsible for outside our operation causes, such as illness of the passenger, pregnancy, drunkenness and other causes or events conducive to the passenger and / or natural disasters, social upheaval, political situations, etc. beyond our control that may affect the normal development of programs “phenomena.

Includes Arequipa – Colca Valley Overnight Condor-4 Days / 3 Nights :

• Transfer from airport / hotel / airport.
• 02 nights accommodation in Arequipa.
• 01 night accommodation in Colca.
• All transfers on arrival.
• City tour including Santa Catalina Convent.
• Excursion to the Colca Canyon.
• 01 Lunch in Colca.
• Professional guide.
• All tickets of entrance.
• Personalized assistance.

Arequipa City Tour – Countryside – Colca Canyon 3 days: Ornamental Architecture Historic Center of Arequipa shows the creative fusion of European and indigenous features, playing a vital role in the cultural expression of the entire region. The historic center of Arequipa is an outstanding colonial settlement case conditioned by natural factors, indigenous influences, the conquest and evangelization as well as for its spectacular natural setting.

Colca Canyon – CONDOR FLIGHT – Arequipa:

Nearly two thousand years ago, the original inhabitants of the Colca Agri tasks performed their tails in the high arable slopes and riparian areas that lavishes Valley before becoming deep canyon. The population was small and agriculture did not demand greater sophistication, but the vocation of those remote tardarí farmers not to develop one of the most remarkable works of naval engineering to Agri tail of Ancient Peru: a complex system of channels and platforms, that from the seventh century AD I IRI rapidly incorporating new arable areas that still offers superimposed the stunning natural scenery, a stunning spectacle.

The territory comprising the present Cayllomaprovince where the Colca Valley is located, is in the area of so-called “western Andean valleys of southern area,” covering a wide swath of land that stretches along 250 km. With its headwaters basin of highland valleys chaos are bundled together by coastal deserts and the high Andean watersheds. The morfologí to Colca is characterized, in turn, by a complex of high plateaus and moderate slopes, resulting from uplift and glacial erosion, cut by steep, narrow canyons. The valley is formed by a layer of alluvium deposited during the peri filled quaternary odo and now an interior valley cut by the Colca River. The whole area of these southern Andean valleys sheltering in its vast expanse profuse archaeological remains, evidence of the presence of man from the primitive stage of gathering food and, of course, the first forms of Economi to agricultural.

Mario Vargas Llosa has said the Colca Canyon is “the valley of wonders.” True: where you will see (landscape, population, production, architecture), the valley is filled with riches and surprises. This capi title, understanding the Colca Canyon and Valley but not only as microregion review your Geografi ay natural resources, including land with agricultural potential and that has been wonderfully transformed by the terraces and canals, ending with a description of the road network that allows us to cross it.

ITINERARY OF TRAVEL TO PERU:

Arequipa City Tour – Countryside – Colca Canyon-3 days

TOUR DAY 1:

COUNTRYSIDE TOUR

(4 hours) 1:00 PM

We depart from the hotel to the traditional district of Paucarpata, where we see the pre-Inca and Inca terracing where also appreciate its beautiful colonial church; then continue towards the Sabandía Mill, where we as the force of the water grinds the grain into flour, then enter the Via Landscape, named after the beautiful scenery offered us up to the Founder’s Mansion or Palace Huasacache, XVI century mansion, Balneario de Tingo, an artificial lake place for recreation, then we will continue to target the Sachaca viewpoint, where a spectacular and beautiful view of the city, countryside and three volcanoes (Chachani, Misti is obtained and Pichu Pichu), then we will continue to Iron Bridge, and then arrive at Carmen Alto viewpoint to appreciate the terraces Chilina, then visit Yanahuara to delight with its beautiful church, plaza and gazebo. Then you’ll go to a restaurant so they can savor the varied Arequipa cuisine, if passengers wish.

TOURS DAY 2:

Colca Canyon – Arequipa

3:00 to 3:30 a.m. Pick up at your hotel to begin the journey to Chivay for 3 hours.

6:30 a.m. Breakfast in Chivay and later heading to the natural view of the Cruz del Condor where we will stay for a period of one hour.

Over 10 a.m. we will return to Chivay few stops in the highlights of the area as the “mysterious lagoons Anthahuilque” The “Litomaqueta” and “Hanging Tombs Choquetico” to enter the traditional town of Maca.

24:00 For the return we will make a few stops as Patapampa, the highest point of the trip (4950 m.) Also known as the viewpoint of the volcano where you can see the Ampato Hualca and Sabancaya (volcanoes).

The next stop will be at the wetlands where we will Toccra ponds and some migratory birds; last stop will have the National Reserve of Salinas and Aguada Blanca where we see the vicuña in their natural habitat.

5:30 p.m. arrive to Arequipa

TOURS DAY 3:

Arequipa City Tour

(3 hrs) Breakfast. We depart from the hotel to the Santa Catalina Convent, famous XVI century building, beautiful citadel of colonial charm, known for its streets and squares reflects the Spanish cities, continue to the Church of San Francisco, Plaza de San Francisco and Fundo Fierro where you can find traditional crafts of our city and if you want to buy. Continuing our tour we will visit the Cathedral and its beautiful square, then we will go to the Church of the Jesuits in the interior is the Chapel of St. Ignatius of Loyola, where you can see the most beautiful paintings of the Cuzco school, and then visit the cloisters of the Jesuits which is the highest baroque art – mestizo seventeenth century. Later we headed to the Tambo Bronze and slaughter both located in the neighborhood The Solar street Puente Bolognesi 333, where the Tambo in bronze is probably the oldest in the city and like all built in the eighteenth century. Tambo del Matadero characterized by domes, walls and ashlar drawer. This dairy farm operated as carnal, hence the name “Slaughterhouse”. Today 35 families live in it, we conclude our tour of the city with a visit to one of the oldest market in Arequipa “San Camillo” which was designed by Frenchman Gustave Eiffel.

CITY TOUR INCLUDES Arequipa

• 02 nights in selected hotel
• 02 breakfasts
• Tour Guide
• Entrance fees
• Tourist Mobility for internal circuits

NOT INCLUDED IN CITY TOUR Arequipa:

• Flights Lima – Arequipa – Lima
• Lunches, dinners
• Extra Charges
• Airport transfer to the hotel add S / .Price varies

Tour Full Day Colca Canyon Arequipa: The Colca landscape for travel is viewed from east to west, can be divided into four components: the mountains, the highlands, the valley and desert. The Colca Valley river lies on the western slope of the Andes, in the department of Arequipa in southern Peru. The Colca River rises to 4400 meters above sea level and covers 450 kilometers, along which changes its name becoming Majes River and then the Camana River shortly before it flows into the Pacific Ocean.

ITINERARY OF TRAVEL TO PERU

Tour Full Day Colca Canyon Arequipa

Our clients are picked up from the hotel at 05:00 hrs indicated. The tour to Colca Canyon is performed at a private machine which consists of a professional chauffeur and a local guide. We started the tour driving our vehicle to the northeast of Arequipa, crossing interesting scenarios, reaching Cañahuas Reserve Pampas. In this place, located about 3,000 meters above sea level, you can see groups of vicuñas and Alpacas. Here our guide will stop and explain about the importance of these beautiful Andean camelids. Later continue climbing, up to the Mirador de los Andes, a spectacular route point, located at 4850 meters above sea level.

Here we will stop and enjoy the beautiful scenery that this natural viewpoint offers. Then we continue our journey towards the viewpoint of the Cruz del Condor, passing through beautiful scenery along the edge of the canyon.

During the trip to this beautiful natural viewpoint, we stop at key points in which spectacular canyon views are appreciated. Through our local guide will learn many aspects about the different indigenous groups that inhabited and still inhabit the vast Colca Valley. Later arrive at the famous Cruz del Condor, here we will have over an hour to admire the natural beauty of the Canyon offers and also to observe the majestic flight of the Condor and make short walks around.

Later start our journey back to Chivay, where we stop for lunch in a typical restaurant in this town. Later visit the thermal baths of Calera, a paradise, surrounded by beautiful mountains and hot springs flowing from inside the mountain at a temperature of 80 °, and are combined with cold water in a pool to reach 35 °, proper temperature for a relaxing bath. Finally return to the city of Arequipa, arriving at approximately 19:00 hrs.

End of tour and travel to the Colca Valley

Included in Tour Full Day Colca Valley Arequipa:

• Pick up from your hotel in Arequipa.
• Sightseeing Transportation for your trip
• Tickets to the Colca National Park.
• Professional to the Colca Valley Guide.
• Tickets to the thermal baths of La Calera in Chivay.
• Lunch in the village of Chivay.
• Transfer to your hotel at the end of the Tour Full Day Colca Canyon Arequipa.

Not Included in Tour Full Day Colca Canyon Arequipa:

• Extras & gratuities
• Hotel in Arequipa

Outputs for the tour Colca Valley:

• 5:00 hrs.

Bring Along recommend the Colca Valley full day tour:

For this excursion is necessary to wear warm clothes as the weather in the Colca Canyon is usually cold, especially in winter time (June to September) when temperatures drop significantly in the evenings and nights are very cold.

Keep in mind that we are traveling at considerable altitudes (average 3600 meters / 4800 meters on the highest step).

If you make this trip at other times of year can wear light clothes in the morning but in the afternoon it is always advisable to wear a coat