Cahuachi Pyramids Tour with Huarango Forest and Aqueduct
From €53 per person
See availability →A Cahuachi pyramids tour southwest of Nazca through adobe temples and plazas, then a walk in the huarango forest and a stop at the Ocongalla aqueduct.
The Cahuachi pyramids tour takes you out of Nazca, southwest, to a ceremonial centre that floods have largely destroyed and that archaeologist Giuseppe Orefici is gradually restoring. Your guide collects you at the hotel and, with transport and admission covered, brings you among huge adobe structures that were once a sacred centre of the Nazca people.
- the Great Temple and the Great Pyramid
- the Stepped Temple and the surrounding ruins
- ceremonial plazas where sacrifices and offerings took place
The bilingual guide, in Spanish or English, paints a picture of religious life here and notes the view among archaeologists that Cahuachi's people built the Nazca Lines, given how near the site lies. The route then crosses a forest where the guide explains why the huarango tree mattered so much, and finishes at the Ocongalla aqueduct, a pit open to the sky, lined with stone walls and boulders that have survived intact, fed by Andean meltwater that farmers now channel to their crops.
The tour lasts around three hours and ends with the return to your hotel. Food, drinks and other services are not included.