Tacna Bus

Location: 1407, Avenida Leguía

Location: 153, Avda. Jorge Basadre Grohmann

Location: 515, calle Zela

Location: 841, Avenida San Martín

Location: 1327, Av. Antonio de Zela
Price: 25 soles
An open-air restaurant where you can eat a large variety of plates typical of Tacna, prepared on the traditional way. You will also find live music shows on the evening. The place is ideal for a typical, quiet and pleasant lunch.

Location: 1903, Alto de Lima street
Price: an average of 60 soles
The emblematic plate of this restaurant is “picante a la tacneña” (based on cow’s stomach and paw); the plate has creole flavor, but with the touch and the Tacna seasoning. This restaurant offers nice attention to the dinners, who can enjoy live shows and the tastefull plates from Tacna, prepared in a traditional way, in mud pot. But there isn’t only the typical food in the restaurant, since the chefs are specialists in creating unique combinations that you won’t find in any place.

Location: 542, ZelaHours: Monday-Saturday from 8:00 a.m. to noon and 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Price: Free entrance
An old colonial housewhich was the residence of Francisco Antonio de Zela y Arizaga, dignitary of the independence. Inside the museum you can find an exhibition of paintings from the 19th century and archaeological objects.

Location: at 32 mi (52 km) to the south-east of the city
It’s a beach of not so deep waters, characterized by the beauty and modernity. The environment is clean and surrounded of nature, where you will relax breathing fresh air, looking at the unique twilights of the landscape and fishing in a handmade way.This place is a jewel in the dessert territory of Tacna, don’t you leave without visiting it!

Location: Pachía district, at 14 mi (22 km) from Tacna
Price: 1-3 soles
In those petroglyphs that date from 500 a.C. you can see drawings in red paint that represent the customs, cosmogony and the environment of the region inhabitants centuries ago.

Location: at 14 mi (22 km) from the city, in Pachía district
Hours: from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Price: 3 to 9 soles
Those thermal baths are nourished by the underground waters which have a temperature of nearly 104 °F (40°C). The minerals of the waters make those thermal baths ideal for the arhrosis treatment and other pains of the nervous system. To access to private pools is necessary to pay the triple of the cost of the standard price.

If you enjoy the pacific view of endemic birds, at the Humedales de Ite you will find the paradise of birdwatching, with more than 150 species of birds. This coastal and swampy area is one of the largest in Peru, and it’s home of water wild birds and migratory birds.

The circuit Tarata-Candarave has varied attractions as the incan trail Tarata - Tikako, with archaeological sites and beautiful landscapes that are seen from the Apacheta viewpoint and the waterfalls of Konchachiri. Don’t you miss the Circuito Valle Viejo - Locumba, with its Archaeological complex and the Festival Señor de Locumba.

In Tacna you can go over amazing beaches, starting for Llostay, going to Tomoyo Beach and ending in Punta Mesa. On the beaches you won’t only enjoy the weather and swim in a clean sea, but also you can do handmade fishing with the local fishermen.

A savory stew made of insides of cow, cow’s paws, “charqui” (salty meat), onions and oregano, tastefull and filling.

A dessert that is prepared in different places of Peru, made of sweet corn dough, not so dried, sugar, peanuts and raisins.

Pork meat gold coloured and well fried, served with toasted corn. One of the mountain provinces food delights.

Pan-fried guinea pig, seasoned with spices and served with potato and cream made of chili pepper and ground peanut.

A dish with pork, ground garlic, vinegar and salt, seasoned with “palillo”, a spice very used on the Peruvian south.

Taste the Tacna sour made with the best Peruvian pisco and the extracts of blackberry and plum.