Andahuaylas Tour

It starts with the arrival to Andahuaylas city and transfer to your hotel. Then, after a well-deserved bath and breakfast, we will commence the visit to the city. It includes the city’s Main Square which has a fountain built only with one stone and Andahuaylas’ main church: San Pedro’s Cathedral.

Then, we will visit the Campanayocc Sanctuary 5 km apart from Andahuaylas (30 minute travel by car). This sanctuary possesses a modern architecture, built in 1995, is fairly new and hosts many people faithful to the Catholic Church. It is specially full-on September 14, it’s festive day and has a natural view from which you can appreciate Andahuaylas city and the paradisiacal beauty of Chumbao valley.    

In the afternoon, we will return to the hotel in Andahuaylas city.

After breakfast, we start our tour to the Pacucha lagoon (17 km northeast to the city of Andahuaylas and a 45 minute trip by car). This lagoon is characterized for being 3200 m.a.s.l. while having intensely blue waters surrounded by yellowish sand and natural islands habitat to different species of ducks. 

Later that day, we will go to the archaeological site, the Complejo Sondor (2km from the Pachuca lagoon and a 30 minute trip by foot). It has a dimension of 10 hectares and the buildings were originally made by the millenary Chanca culture (600-900 A.C.). Nonetheless, historians confirm that the Complejo Sondor was later occupied by Incas. These buildings have a pyramidal shape and are surrounded by walls and terraces that lead to open spaces.

Apparently, Sondor was the place to perform religious activities, due to its location, for the central piramid and its strategic view of the mystical Pacucha lagoon. 

By 5 pm we will return to the city and to our accommodation in Andahuaylas

First, it’s breakfast at the hotel.

7 am we will depart to Chincheros where we will visit the Cocharcas Sanctuary (110 km northeast from Andahuaylas city, a 3 hour trip by bus). It is a baroque style temple built with ashlar stone precisely placed and cut in the early XVII century. It has 2 towers, a vault and a dome for masonry decorated with glazed tiles and in its interior, holds important canvases of the Escuela Cusqueña and some Spanish masters. The main altar shows ornaments finely carved in gold sheets.

In the afternoon, we will return to Andahuaylas.

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