| Route | First Bus | Last Bus | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acobamba to Lima | 15:00 | 15:00 | BOOK NOW |
| Route | First Bus | Last Bus | |
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| Lima to Acobamba | 15:30 | 15:30 | BOOK NOW |
Acobamba is an attractive destination all year long.
The average annual temperature in Acobamba is 54.86°F, and the annual average temperature is 531mm.
Location: Pueblo Viejo Barrio
Church of colonial architecture, built out of Picota Stone during the XV Century. It has a baroque-churigueresque style, and impresses for its frontis and mural paintings.
Location: Pueblo Viejo Barrio
Bathing spots made out of stone canals. Used to serve as a spa for the Inca and its wife, and is decorated by several monoliths of humans and animals.
Complex of tombs from before the Inca era, which have the shape of eliptical windows. There are more than 700, and the complex is one of the largest in Peru.
Location: Calle San Martín
Location: Cruce San Martín con Saenz Peña
Restaurant which specializes in typical food of the Huancavelica Region. We recommend you try the cau-cau!
It’s a traditional plate with the following main ingredients: white corn or husked wheat, cow meat, mutton, fat, dry meat or charqui, leg’s cartilage, head and mutton paunch. It’s prepared on festivals eve.
It’s a plate that has several types of meat: mutton, kid, pork, guinea pig and cow. It’s served with corn, potatoes, field beans, mashed cheese, cheese and ground corn, all of eat cooked on rocks hot, previously warmed covered with marmaquilla (a plant) leafs under the floor.
It’s made of dehydrated potato (chuño), scrambled with egg and cheese, and it’s served with roasted piglet.
Here are some of the most popular dropping points in Acobamba. Please note that these locations generally differ with each bus operator. The bus dropping points in Acobamba are as follows:
| Feast of Christmas | 22nd to 29th of December | The celebration covers a week of activities, between the 22nd and the 29th of December. During the week, several cultural and religious events are hosted, and parades with bands tour the city. The feast of Christmas in Acobamba has been recognized as a Cultural Heritage by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture. The celebration has been transformed by the own locals, becoming a simbolic space for ritual exchange and expressions of faith, as well as theater acts for the resolution of conflicts in recent history. During the celebration, the different barrios compete amongst them to show who celebrastes the best. |