Main Info
The beautiful Cajamarca is considered Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Americas, because not only due to its wonderful landscapes, esides it was the scene of important historical events, also the way of celebrating its festivities, its dances, its music and more.
Departure | Lima International Airport |
Departure Time | Please arrive by 4:20 PM for a prompt departure the next day at 7:00 AM |
Return Time | Approximately 8:30 PM |
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Itinerary
Download Brochure4:30 p.m. Arraival to the Airport, and we will take you to the Hotel***
9:00 a.m. Breakfast, our first point will be the Huaca Pucllana, then the Promenade of Republic, San Martin Square and the Main Square, with their different buildings: Government Palace, Archibishop´s Palace, the Cathedral Basílica and the Municipal Palace also we will enter to the Museum of the Banco Central de Reserva, Convent of Saint Francis and its Catacombs. We will continue visiting The Olive Grove of San Isidro, Miraflores and Larco Mar, distinctive tourist centre of contemporary Lima. Finally to our hotel.
8:00 a.m. Breakfast, we will take you to the airport to fly to Cajamarca
9:00 a.m. Arraival to Cajamarca ctity and transfer to the hostel ***
10:00 a.m. Free morning
2:00 p.m. Lunch in Cajamarca city
3:30 p.m. In our first tour we visit Huanbocancha town where crafts of stone are made, the Agro-Tourism in Porcón Farm a rural cooperative that offer an agro-tourism program, the Mini-zoo with animals of regional fauna.
7:00 p.m. Return to our hotel in Cajamarca city
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m. In our second tour we visit Cumbemayo (40 minutes), the Archaeological Complex of Cumbemayo, a place where the highest hydraulic technology of ancient peruvian communities and the impact of time upon nature are wonderfully combined and we apreciate the vewer of Bella Vista, El Layzón and Los Frailones (The Friars), a rare geological formations, where some will identify the shapes of monks forming part of a procession.
2:00 p.m. Return to Cajamarca and lunch
3:30 p.m In our third tour we visit the Hacienda La Colpa that is a famous farm for its herd of cows which are still called by name at milking time. Guided visit through all the farm (the church, the artificial lake, the store with milk derivatives), later we go to Llacanora a picturesque town with waterfalls. The falls are a few kilometers from town but a fairly easy walk and finally (and optional) the Inca Baths, natural hot springs located five kilometers east of Cajamarca in the town of Baños del Inca.
7:00 p.m. Return to our hotel in Cajamarca city
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:30 a.m. In our next tour we visit Otuzco Archaeological Complex, on Llanguil Hill, only 8 km northeast from the City of Cajamarca, there are living rock excavations, appearing at a distance to be a multiple array of windows. The so-called Ventanillas (Niches) of Otuzco (2,850 m.a.s.l.) are actually part of an old cemetery of the Cajamarca Culture, which niches are neatly arranged in rows. Apparently, this was an important place for honoring ancestors, which remains may have been removed from their original tombs to be deposited in this necrópolis, then we go La Hacienda Tres Molinos, The Garden of Hortensias and Fundo de los Alpes.
2:00 p.m. Return to Cajamarca city
5:00 p.m. Free afternoon
8:00am. Breakfast and we will take you to the airport of Cajamarca to fly to Lima City.