A.m. Arrival to Arequipa city. Upon arrival in Arequipa, assistance at the
Airport and transfer to selected hotel p.m. guided city tour. Tour the lovely "White City," built from the white sillar rock that spewed out from the Volcan Misti, including the Santa Catalina Convent, the most astonishing site in Arequipa, which was opened to the public in 1970 after 400 years as a cloister. Santa Catalina takes visitors back four centuries. Entering the cloister you see the numerous and spacious patios and gardens, the kitchen and slave quarters and stone wash-tubs of this convent where entrance requirements were among the strictest in Peru. Novices, daughters of aristocrats, had to prove Spanish origin and come up with a dowry of at least 1,000 gold pesos.

Drive to the Colca Valley, towards Yura climbing to the Puna, or high plateau, and desolate plains of Pampa Cañahuas at the Aguada Blanca National Reserve, protected habitat for vicuñas (llama relatives with finer wool). The valley has beautiful pre-Columbian terraces still used by native Collaguas to plant corn, potatoes, broad beans, alfalfa, quinua, barley and wheat after lunch return to Arequipa. Overnight.

Breakfast on time we will transfer to the airport to take your flight to Lima.