Airport pick up and City Tour (PRIVATE TOUR)
By Peru Nat Red Tour Operator
1010 out of 10
Exceptional
Features
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
Activity location
- Plaza de Yanahuara
- Cuesta del Angel 513
- 04017, Arequipa, Peru
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Plaza de Yanahuara
- Cuesta del Angel 513
- 04017, Arequipa, Peru
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What's included, what's not
- Private transport
- Water bottle
- Private Tour
- Professional Tour Guide
- Iglesia de la compañía
Know before you book
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transport options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
What you can expect
Our tour can begin by picking you up from the airport and transferring you to your hotel or the other way around by picking you up from your hotel and transferring you to the airport at the end of the tour. Please note that the airport transfers, arrival or departure must be on the same day of the tour.
As it is a private tour you can choose the starting time and customise the visits to your comfort. If you need to finish the tour before, there is no problem, there is no rush if you want or need to make the visits slowly.
Our private transport will take us to Yanahuara and then we will return to the centre of Arequipa which is a world cultural heritage, and we will take a walking tour, exploring and discovering the colonial past of Arequipa and its current culture.
Arequipa is a city with a lot of history, tradition, natural and cultural diversity.
Welcome travellers!
Activity itinerary
Plaza de Yanahuara
- 20m
You can visit the square and the viewpoint of this traditional area, from where you can see the volcanoes that surround the city. We will also observe the colonial church built with volcanic stone and the guide will explain why this area is considered one of the most romantic in Arequipa.
Mundo Alpaca Arequipa
- 20m
Mundo Alpaca Arequipa represents a great cultural and touristic contribution to the White City -world capital of Alpaca- that seeks to expose and bring to the world our millenary cultural wealth, allowing its visitors to appreciate and "live" the Alpaca experience, interacting directly with these animals in a beautiful natural environment. In addition, they will be able to see live the ancestral technique of manual classification of the fibre, as well as the exhibition of the extraordinary traditional process of the backstrap loom.
We will also observe, touch and learn more about the vicuña fibre, which is considered the finest in the world.
Iglesia de la Compania de Jesus
- 20m
Probably the church with the greatest religious artistic expression in the city, here you will find mestizo baroque style facades, beautiful altars decorated with gold leaf, and colonial paintings.
Mercado San Camilo
- 45m
This market is considered cultural heritage site of the nation, since it is not simply a basic supply centre, but is part of the cultural development of Arequipa and is a clear example of the living culture and the contemporary economic movement of the city.
In this market you can find all kinds of typical products from Arequipa and other regions of Peru, here there is a great diversity of fruits, potatoes and natural products, as well as medicinal plants that are very popular within the local culture.
Cloisters of The Company
- 20m
It is one of the most important historical monuments in Arequipa, dating back to 1677 and has beautiful colonial architecture, notable for its beautiful columns with high-relief details.
Mario Vargas Llosa
- 10m
We enter the Mario Vargas LLosa regional library (Nobel Prize winner for literature), a building of republican architecture and living culture
Plaza de Armas
- 10m
Place of foundation of the city located in the historic centre of Arequipa, which is considered a cultural heritage site of the world. Plaza de armas is surrounded by the cathedral and the stone portals that show us the passage from the colony to the republican era. We will go up to the portals viewpoint from where we will observe the square surrounded by the impressive Misti, Chachani and Pichu Pichu volcanoes.
Calle San Francisco
- 5m
Through San Francisco Street we will access the square of the same name, which is the second most important in the historic centre (after the Plaza de Armas) both for its beauty and its historical relevance.
Plaza San Lázaro
- 10m
We will walk through the oldest streets of the city located in the traditional area of San Lázaro, currently a recreation and rest area for national and foreign tourists.
Location
Activity location
- Plaza de Yanahuara
- Cuesta del Angel 513
- 04017, Arequipa, Peru
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Plaza de Yanahuara
- Cuesta del Angel 513
- 04017, Arequipa, Peru