Arequipa Tours & Holidays
Arequipa Small Group Tours & Tailor-Made Holidays
Arequipa lies in an oasis at 2,300 metres surrounded by desert and mountains. The city has been built out of white volcanic rock from the nearby Misti Volcano, the reason for its popular nickname 'the White City'. It is also surrounded by other peaks such as Chachani, Pichu Picchu and Coropuna. One of the city's main attractions is the Santa Catalina convent, founded in 1580 for cloistered nuns and opened to the public in 1970. There are also fine colonial homes, which still feature Baroque-style ...
Arequipa lies in an oasis at 2,300 metres surrounded by desert and mountains. The city has been built out of white volcanic rock from the nearby Misti Volcano, the reason for its popular nickname 'the White City'. It is also surrounded by other peaks such as Chachani, Pichu Picchu and Coropuna. One of the city's main attractions is the Santa Catalina convent, founded in 1580 for cloistered nuns and opened to the public in 1970. There are also fine colonial homes, which still feature Baroque-style sillar carvings in their doorways. Another of the city's impressive attractions is the lady of Ampato or the Juanita Mummy, the mummy of an Inca adolescent who was offered as a sacrifice to the gods and which can be visited at the Andean Sanctuaries Museum.