Arequipa Bus

Ubicación: 210, Calle Ugarte
It’s a little but welcoming bar, perfect for the people who look for nights with friends, chatting or just having fun without being a party night. There are live bands, large variety of cocktails and foods of international flavor.

Ubicación: San Francisco 319 - B/ (054) 221904
You will discover a large variety of musical genres besides an atmosphere more than nice to know people who look for party. Have fun in one of the most visited discos of the white city.

Ubicación: Centro Comercial Real Plaza. Local 400/ Av. Ejercito y Arequipa
In Aura the LED screens and psychedelic lights with 4 bars will made a different night, besides have several rooms and a dance floor that will be your downfall.

Location: 211, San Francisco street
Hours: everyday from 12:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Price: around 20 soles
It’s a little but smart restaurant of new Andean cook, high variety and delicious flavor. Something curious: they served it in different plates, they are never the same ones.

Location: 122, Pasaje Leoncio Prado, Yanahuara
Hours: 12:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Price: an average of 30 soles
It’s well- known for being one of the most ancient cheap restaurants. They offer traditional plates to the demanding consumer since more than 100 years ago. The main plates are prepared in a traditional way, cooked on firewood and with rustic methods. Their specialty is the “rocoto relleno”, so if you want to taste it, just try!

Location: 109, Avenida Dolores JLB y Rivero
Price: 40 soles and up
This restaurant of home country atmosphere is one of the recognised restaurants of typical food, nor only for its unique flavor and menu’s variety, but also for its attention, very nice and attentive. Here you can eat with a great pisco or other typical Peruvian drink.

Location: 227, San Francisco street
Price: 50 soles and up
Paladar 1900 is an exlusive restaurant located in a beautiful restored mansion, with a front with details sculpted in block of stone, a white stone typical of Arequipa. You will find the best fusion food that combines tradition and Peruvian flavors with modern food tendences without forgetting the original Arequipa touch. The specialties of the house are: “Seco de cordero” (lamb) and “rocoto relleno”.

Location: 210, Santa Catalina
Hours: 12.00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.
Price: 24 to 67 soles
A renovated experience of high cooking is the Chicha’s proposal, a restaurant of the Peruvian chef Gastón Acurio. At the menu, you won’t only find the best of the traditional Arequipa’s food, but also the most popular dishes of the Peruvian and international cooking, with varieties and unique combinations, prepared with Arequipa’s ingredients of high quality. The restaurant also has a bar where you can taste the best Peruvian and international drinks, as the pisco sour or the finest wines. Don’t you miss the cuy pekinés (guinea pig), “chupe de camarón” (shrimp soup) and the “pescado en salsa de cauche” (fish in a sauce).

Location: 117, Jr. Recoleta
Hours: Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Price: 10 soles adults, 5 soles students
The convent La Recoleta was founded in 1648 by the father Pedro de Mendoza. From 1978 there is a pre-Columbian museum where you can appreciate pottery of the moche, chimú and inca cultures, and other interesting remains as mummies and tools. Ther is as well a library which has more than 20000 historical books.

Location: at 60 mi (97km) to the North of Arequipa
Hours: any time of day
The Sumbay caves are located on the limits of the National Reserve of Salinas and Aguada Blanca, at the back of the Misti. They harbor more than 500 figures of cave paintings, representations which come 6000 to 8000 years ago aproximately and possibly the first settlers of the area made them.

Location: at 1 mi (2 km) from the center of Arequipa city
Hours: any time of day
The Yanahuara viewpoint was built on the 19th century and it’s formed by block of stone archs which have engraving words of distinguished celebrities of Arequipa.

Location: At 102.5 mi (165 km) from the city
Hours: any time of day
The Colca Valley is a canyon produced by the natural erosion, considered the second in depth of the world. Several kinds of llamas and condors can be appreciated through the route to the valley center, where you can also discover one of the most splendid sunrises of the planet.

Location: at 11 mi (17.5 km) from Arequipa city
Hours: any time of the day
The Misti volcano is the Arequipa symbol and is one of the main tourist attractions for the climbing lovers. It’s considered active, although the eruption risk is minimum. The people who wish to scale it must do a tour of 2 days, and during that time the traveller can acclimatize himself to its height.Due to the region’s climate, the ascent is not so difficult, but you should be fit to enjoy as much as possible the experience.

One of the favourite activities for adults and children is the cavalcade, horse trips through the main routes of Arequipa’s region. The tour varies depending on the company that propose the tour. Some of them follow the riverbed of the Chili river and others go destination the Colca valley or the Cotahuasi canyon.

This adventurous destination is located at 258 mi (415 km) from the city and has an altitude of 345 meters above the sea level. This route is one of the most demanded by the adrenalin and extreme sports lovers, besides being a tour rich in nature and archaeological areas.

The rafting is practiced in the challenging waters of the Chili river, although there are also adveture tours in the Colca and Cotahuasi rivers.

The white city has beautiful beaches on its littoral of white sand, turquoise water and excellent weather. The best thing of those beaches is that you can camp on them, living full the twilights and amazing sunrises in front of the Arequipa’s sea. The best beaches of Arequipa are the ones that can be found in the Islay, Camaná and Caravelí districts.

It’s a shrimp soup with milk, eggs and “huacatay” (a green Peruvian spice), all of it seasoned with the marine touch of the Arequipa coastal area, just succulent!

It’s made of marinade pig meat with “chicha de jora” (a Peruvian maize drink) and spices, all cooked in a mud pot.

It’s an ice-cream that despite its name doesn’t include cheese in its making. It’s unknown the name’s origin, but you don’t care about that when tasting it. It’s made of milk, cinnamon, coconut and spices, an emblematic delight of the Arequipa desserts!

As the name tells, the plate is a large pepper which its spice part has been removed; it’s stuffed of ground meat, seasoned with spice pepper (“ají panca”), cheese, milk and other spices. It’s dressed with potato puree. It’s a national plate you can’t miss.

It’s a dish of boiled potatoes bathed with huacatay sauce (a peruvian spice), seasoned with fresh cheese, field beans, onions, olives and large pepper. It comes with egg slices.