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Rumicolca
The huge Inca gate of Rumicolca is built on Wari foundations. The cruder Wari stonework contrasts with the Inca blocks. It’s interesting to see indigenous people working with the mud that surrounds the area’s swampy lakes – the manufacture of adobe (mud bricks) is one of the main i
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Museo del Sitio de Qorikancha
There are sundry moth-bitten archaeological displays interpreting Inca and pre-Inca cultures at this small, mangy, underground archaeological museum, which is accessed off Av El Sol.Admission is with the boleto turístico tourist card only, which is valid for 10 days and covers 16 o
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El Molino de Sabandía
A 3km walk from the plaza brings you to El Molino de Sabandía . This mill was built in 1785, fell into disrepair and was restored two centuries later; it now grinds once more for visitors. The neat grounds, shaded with weeping willows and providing great views of El Misti, are a fa
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Iglesia Colonial de Chinchero
Among the most beautiful churches in the valley, this colonial church is built on Inca foundations. The interior, decked out in merry floral and religious designs, is well worth seeing. Admission is via the boleto turístico tourist card (valid for 10 days and for 16 other sites acr
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Casona Orbegoso
Named after a former president of Peru, this beautiful 18th-century corner manor is home to a collection of well-worn art and period furnishings, but its stuck-in-time feel is being increasingly insured by its ongoing closure for renovations. There was no estimated reopening date w
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Museo Municipal de Sitio
About 15km inland at El Algarrobal is the Museo Municipal de Sitio, which hosts a surprisingly noteworthy collection of exhibits on the area’s archaeology and agriculture, including ceramics, textiles, a collection of feather-topped hats and a mummified llama. A round-trip by taxi
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El Castillo de Forga
El Castillo de Forga was built in 1908 on a crag between two of the beaches just south of the city center by a rich arequipeño (inhabitant of Arequipa) in love with European architecture. Once an eye-catching stately home, it is currently unoccupied. There have been proposals to tu
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Museo de Sitio Chan Chan
At the Tschudi complex you’ll find an entrance area with tickets, snacks, souvenirs, bathrooms, the small Museo de Sitio Chan Chan with information in English and Spanish and guides (S18). The complex is well marked by fish-shaped pointers, so you can see everything without a guide
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Museo de Sitio Sipán
Museo de Sitio Sipán , opened in January 2009, is worth a visit – but note that the most impressive artifacts, such as the Lord of Sipán and the Sacerdote, were placed in the Museo Tumbas Reales de Sipán in Lambayeque, after going on world tour. Spanish- and English-speaking guides
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La Plazuela
The local wine industry is evident in the shops that line Av Benavides between the square and the bus station. La Plazuela will pour a few gratis mini-glasses of the eye-wateringly sweet local wine and the mega-strong pisco. The owners run a restaurant next door, should you fancy f
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Bodega Santa Maria
A very civilized semi-industrial winery 1km north of the town with flowery grounds and large wooden casks that retain the air of an Andalucian sherry bodega. Free samples of the sweet-ish wine (red, white and rosé) and powerful pisco varietals are laid on in an aromatic tasting roo
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Museo Lítico Pucará
The Museo Lítico Pucará displays a surprisingly good selection of anthropomorphic monoliths from the town’s pre-Inca site, Kalasaya . The ruins themselves sit above the town, a short way up Jirón Lima away from the main plaza. Just S10 gets you into both sites, though there’s nobod
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Museo Mario Testino
A wonderful small museum dedicated to the work of the world-renowned photographer Mario Testino, a native of Peru and local barranquino . The permanent exhibition includes iconic portraits of Princess Diana, Kate Moss and notable actors. Theres also beautiful portraits of Andean hi
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Museo Quijote
In a new location housed inside a bank, this privately owned museum of contemporary art houses a diverse, thoughtful collection of painting and sculpture ranging from the folksy to the macabre. There’s good interpretive information about 20th-century Peruvian art history, some of i
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Museum
Further north, the village of Huaura , opposite Huacho , is where José de San Martín proclaimed Peru’s independence. Ask for someone to show you the building where it occurred. There is an inconsequential museum and a Spanish-speaking guide who’ll show you the balcony from where th
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Puerto Inca
Archaeological site from where fresh fish was once sent all the way to Cuzco by runners – no mean effort! The well-marked turnoff is 10km north of the tiny, ramshackle fishing village of Chala, about 170km from Nazca, at Km 603 along Carr Panamericana Sur, from where a dirt road le
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Hut of the Caretaker of the Funerary Rock
An excellent viewpoint to take in the whole site. It’s one of a few buildings that has been restored with a thatched roof, making it a good shelter in the case of rain. The Inca Trail enters the city just below this hut. The carved rock behind the hut may have been used to mummify
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Casa de Oquendo
Two blocks to the north of the Casa de la Riva, the cornflower-blue Casa de Oquendo is a ramshackle turn-of-the-19th-century house (in its time, the tallest in Lima) with a creaky lookout tower that, on a clear day, has views of Callao. Arrange tours for small groups ahead of time
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Museo Kampac
Staff at the shop opposite this museum, two blocks west of the Plaza de Armas, will give you a Spanish-language guided tour of the museum’s small but significant collection. It includes pre-Inca ceramics and monoliths, plus one mummy. They may also show you a unique vase inscribed
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Kuntur Wasi
Overlooking the small town of San Pablo, this pre-Inca ceremonial center is considered one of the cradles of Andean culture. While the ruins are not the most spectacular in the region – apart from the walls and central plaza, most of the excavated structures have been filled in aga
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