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Although you will be hiking at altitudes of
3,800 meters, once you are acclimatized, the
trek is considered a moderate one. We have
animals to carry all your luggage and a
bilingual professional guide, plus camp crew
that will tend to all our needs.
Arequipa City lies at 2400 meters above sea
level but it has a very pleasant climate, its
days are mostly warm and sunny, and its nights
are cool. The pretty Plaza de Armas forms the
city core, bordered on one side by a Jesuit
church founded in 1689. There are many fine
restored mansions and churches such as San
Agustin with its Churrigueresque facade, but the
primary religious monument is the Santa Catalina
Monastery, a flowering complex of buildings that
once sheltered a community of 400 nuns. |