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Overview
Other Peruvians joke that you need a different passport to enter Peru’s second-largest city. One-tenth the size of Lima, Arequipa is its pugnacious equal in terms of cuisine, historical significance and confident self-awareness.
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Peru Uncovered: A Journey from Coast to Andes
14 days / 13 nights
highlights
- 1Embarking on a 10-hour luxury train ride through the Andes and over the Altiplano
- 2Watching llamas and vicuñas graze at the foothills of volcanic mountains
- 3Finding the sacred in the Sacred Valley, where intricate engineering reflects Incan ingenuity
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