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The Ashlar Route

Operative tour

If you cancel your reservation up to 24 hours before the start of the activity, we will refund you 100% of the reservation payment. No refunds will be issued on cancellation requests received after the indicated anticipation.

Free cancellation

You can reschedule your booking without any additional cost until 24 hours before the beginning of the activiity.

Free rescheduling

Visit a quarry where this famous stone can be extracted, and combine this with a visit to see the petroglyphs in Culebrillas.


Price per person:

S/ 39.00 per person.

Times:

08:30 am to 01:00 pm and 02:00 pm to 06:00 pm

Duration:

4 hours.


Included:

pickup at your accommodation (urban area), shared transportation, Spanish-speaking guide and drop off at city's downtown.

What to bring:

comfortable shoes, hat to protect against the sun, sunglasses, sunscreen, snack, water and comfortable clothing.

Weather:

In case of suspension for weather conditions, we will refund 100% of your payment.

subject to weather conditions.

Not included:

food, entrance fee to cantera de Añashuayco (S/ 5 per person, payment in cash) and entrance fee to Culebrillas, Pretroglyphs area (S/ 5 per person).

Cancellation and rescheduling policy:

24 hours.

If you cancel your reservation up to 24 hours before the start of the activity, we will refund you 100% of the reservation payment. No refunds will be issued on cancellation requests received after the indicated anticipation.


We will embark on the Ashlar Route by departing the city towards the Añashuayco quarry. Here, our guide will give us a number of talks about the process of extracting ashlar, a stone used in the majority of the buildings around the Plaza de Armas of Arequipa. We will also receive information about the chiseling, carving, and large-scale chiseling done by the stonemasons.


Afterwards, we will go to the Culebrillas Gorge, a quarry that is not being mined, but which we are able to walk through for 20 minutes via a small canyon formed by water erosion. At the end of the tour, we will see some petroglyphs that we can admire and photograph while our guide tells us about them. Then, we will go back to Arequipa to end the tour.


*If you’re nearby and would like to come directly to the agency to speed up the tour check-in, let us know and we’ll send you the meeting point, right in front of the Plaza de Armas.

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    We accept bookings up to 1 days in advance, subject to availability. Therefore, we recommend booking as early as possible to secure your spot.

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