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By Tangol
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$46 per traveller
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

    • Amazing tour to explore the Sillar Route in Arequipa
    • Learn about the Sillar from expert masters.
    • Opportunity to know where the sillar comes from
    • Admire unique desert landscapes
    • Discover the source of main building material of Arequipa

Activity location

  • Sillar Quarries
    • Quebrada Culebrilla
    • 04400, Cerro Colorado District, Arequipa, Peru

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Hotel Pickup
    • 04001, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

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What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Guided tour of Sillar Route
  • Inclusions
    Hotel Pick up
  • Inclusions
    Live tour commentary provided in Spanish and English
  • Inclusions
    First Aid Kit
  • Exclusions
    Food and drinks
  • Exclusions
    Entrance fee of S/ 5.00 Peruvian Soles, per person (payable locally)

Know before you book

    • This activity is suitable for all ages.
    • You must be able to walk in unpaved or uneven terrain
    • This activity is not wheelchair accessible.
    • Hotel pickup is available from most centrally located Arequipa city hotels. Please arrange pickup from your hotel or a nearby location when you call to confirm your reservation
    • Please be ready and waiting in your hotel lobby 15 minutes prior to your scheduled pick-up time.
    • Children 2 and younger are complimentary if they are sitting on their parent's laps
    • This activity ends at tourist stop on Calle Zela, next to the Santa Catalina Monastery

What you can expect

  • After picking you up from the hotel in the morning, we are going to begin a very special tour: The Silllar Route.

    We will take the road towards the district of Cerro Colorado until reach the “Canteras de Añashuayco”, located at the bottom of the Volcano Chachani, next to the River Chilli. This place has a wonderful natural, and cultural, landscape. Walking through the master cutters area, we are going to admire handmade art work, such as colonial facades and carvings.

    Also, we will visit artisan workshops to learn about the work done with ashlar, and we will see how they work on it with ancestral instruments. You will have the opportunity to purchase local handicraft (optional).

    Continuing with this amazing tour, we are going to visit the “Cantera de Culebrillas”, and we will explore this impressive natural ravine formed by the erosion of the water and wind. The ashlar (sillar) has been used for the constructions of important buildings in the city of Arequipa, declares a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

    At the end of the tour, we will return to the city centre and drop you off at the touristic stop on Calle Zela, located next to the Monastery of Santa Catalina.

Location

Activity location

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    Sillar Quarries
    • Quebrada Culebrilla
    • 04400, Cerro Colorado District, Arequipa, Peru

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Hotel Pickup
    • 04001, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru