Arequipa
Worth seeing in and around Arequipa
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 05National University of St Augustin of Arequipa
State-owned university in Arequipa, Peru
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Getting to Arequipa
- Airports
- Rodríguez Ballón (AQP), 7 km · Inca Manco Capac (JUL), 180 km
- Stations
- Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, 8.1 km
- Juliaca → Arequipa180 km · quickest by road, 6h 6m · S/42–55
- Cusco → Arequipa322 km · quickest by air, 5h 35m · S/180–280
- Lima → Arequipa765 km · quickest by air, 4h 35m · S/280–430
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Arequipa
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Arequipa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCharter trains to Juliaca and Puno are only available for groups of 40 or more.
- Go nextThere are many travel agencies, but only a few tour operators without commissions.
- Go nextThe Colca Canyon: Theoretically possible as a day trip but not recommended; count a minimum of two days.
- Go nextTrekking Colca Canyon without a guide or a tour is also possible and costs less.
- Go nextThe trek beyond can be dangerous if you're not an experienced mountaineer.
From Wikivoyage: Arequipa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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