Super Fitness Health BlogPeru Holidays in Arequipa – the White City
Nestling in the shadow of El Misti a snow-capped volcano which towers above it lies the city of Arequipa. Recognized as La Ciudad Blanca (the White City) since of the nearby white volcanic rock, it is a single of the jewels of Peru. Combining contemporary amenities with a laid-back lifestyle, spectacular scenery and beautiful colonial archictecture, it is someplace everybody need to attempt and pay a visit to whilst on holiday in Peru.
The Plaza de Armas is the heart of the city and is a peaceful, beautiful square – the perfect location to sit and wonder exactly where to check out subsequent on your Peru vacation! It is surrounded on three sides by colonial arcades and on the fourth by the gorgeous white cathedral. The cathedral itself is open to the public in the morning and the evening and is nicely worth a visit. There are also many other colonial-era churches close to the Plaza that are fine examples of the elegant mestizo style.
As properly as the kind of facilities and culture you’d expect from a main city, the men and women of Arequipa are justly proud of the amazing sites the city provides for tourists. Possibly the principal attraction in Arequipa is the convent-city of Santa Catalina, two blocks from the Plaza. It genuinely is a city in miniature and housed more than 200 nuns and 300 servants until it opened its doors to the public in 1970. It was a closed convent and these days the nuns reside in a modest closed location although the miniature streets and homes which have been previously the nuns cells are open from 9am-4pm. Its an incredible spot and you can truly feel the history as you walk around.
If the sun is shining (which it constantly is right here!) then there are some nice bars and restaurants in the Pasaje de la Catedral a pedestrianised street which lies just behind the cathedral from the Plaza. Its a beautiful, tranquil place in the course of the day and at night, and is a great spot to unwind and send property these postcards producing every person really feel jealous of your Peru vacation!
Outdoors the city itself, Colca Canyon is one particular of the undoubted highlights of numerous peoples’ Peru holidays. It is twice as deep as the Grand Canyon and is 163m brief of getting the deepest in the planet – all this at three,500m above sea-level! It gives almost unparalleled views and is also almost certainly the greatest spot to see the renowned giant Andean Condor. The sides of the canyon are lined with pre-Inca terraces, lying inbetween tiny villages clinging to the precipitous sides. You’ve got to see it to believe it!
And when you think that Colca Canyon was only 163m shallower than the deepest canyon in the planet… it really is simply because a handful of miles away is Cotahuasi Canyon! Similarly an region of far more than outstanding natural beauty, Cotahuasi canyon is slightly more remote and harder to get to but is all the much more breathtaking due to the fact of it. It was declared a Zona Reserva Turistica in 1988 and is only slowly opening up to vacationers.
There’s so a lot to see and do in Arequipa and the surrounding places as element of your Peru holidays that your only problem is probably to be wanting to spend too extended here!
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