Some 160 kilometres (96 miles) outside Arequipa is one of the country’s great eco destinations, where from the Mirador Cruz del Cóndor, at an altitude of more than 3,000 metres (almost 10,000 feet), you feel practically like you’re flying yourself even while enormous condors wheel above your head. Then, too, there’s water to entertain you – whether with adrenaline, in whitewater rafting on the Colca River, or relaxing in the warm thermal baths of Yura, 27 km (16 miles) from Arequipa.

Read more in our post Seeing White in Arequipa, Peru.


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