Cahuachi | Tourist Attraction

April 24th, 2024 by poudredescampette.com

Nice and impressive site. The entry is free! Unfortunately the part that you can visit is really small, but at the end of the day during golden hour it is really beautiful.

January 8th, 2023 by juntosnaafrica.blogspot.com

Nice place. 18 minutes drive to get here. Good and smooth dirt road. Easy to get here. Just follow the signs and keep on the main road. Recommended. 6:30 to 18:30, according to Senor Pablo, who lives at the site.

October 27th, 2019 by dgrolfe

Not worth the long drive over washboard roads. Took 1hr 15min to get here for a 10 min walk. Interesting few tidbits from the guy who supervises, but that’s it.

October 11th, 2018 by croods65

Hello
Realy good gravel road for the acces here.
We drive slowly with out motorhome so we need aro7nd 45mn to go here since the main road.
Nice place to visit with Paulo...I think it's the gardian.
With a little tips he can explain you some intersting things.
But the best is to sleep here with out motorhome.
You are in the desert and you have only the wind to ear.
Lovely moment.
The only bad think it's that you can't visit all the site now.
You must follow the way and there isn't a lot...around 10mn walking.
Enjoy

September 2nd, 2018 by wtladson

Road closed at locked gate with "private property" sign about 4km from the site.
Couldn't enter

October 29th, 2017 by ramblinglarder.com

There are ongoing excavations and the visiting area is now limited to about a 10min walk around the edge of 3 of the supposed 40 pyramids. The adobe walls are well preserved,
but this is all we could really appreciate at the site. This ceremonial center is infamous for its plethora of pottery but it's been removed and is on exhibit (along with wall paintings from the site) at the museo Arqueológico Antoni in Nazca.

We were not allowed to stay the night in the parking lot. In our opinion, this is not worth the long washboard road.

August 4th, 2017 by wu-tour.de

the well restored ruins are worth a visit. the road is 18 km washboard (mostly not more than 18km/h with our 2 wd sprinter-van). still no emtrance fees. there are banos and water. the man looking after the place, pablo, let us stay over night, parking our car next to the bano building at night to avoid the wind (which starts every afternoon). pablo gave as an excellent guided tour on spanish aswell. we gave him 20sols propina for the tour + staying safely and very quiet.

July 13th, 2017 by Olli

Nice place .... and free of charge!
18km offroad to get to the place. Doable with any 2 WD car or bike (but way more fun to go through the dunes in a 4WD!!!)

June 2nd, 2017 by Flinking Around

ok ruins but not a must see. if you've seen some more desert ruins further north (caral, Chan cham, Tucume) you can easily skip this one.

May 20th, 2017 by anvanesser

This place is in wrong location - it is located at -14.81697, -75.11465

May 20th, 2017 by anvanesser

Very interesting. There is a local guy that has been there for years helping with the excavation and is very happy to give a tour for a small propina.

May 5th, 2017 by www.practicingforretirement.com

This place is in wrong location - it is located at -14.81790, -75.11737

May 5th, 2017 by www.practicingforretirement.com

A cool ruin for sure, but this place is 'like Macchu Picchu' in the same way that my house is 'like Macchu picchu'. Lol. It's a totally different style of structure, in a totally different climate, built by an entirely different culture. But I digress.

It takes about 30 minutes to drive the 16km from the main road. Bit of washboard, but lots of tracks run parallel to the road which are smoother. The ruins are still free to visit - so great value! Worth a look around. Grab the Wikipedia article about the ruins in advance if you care about learning something - there ain't one stick of signage or information out here.

March 17th, 2017 by lilolatour.net

cérémonial Center of Cahuachi, like a little Machu Picchu in désert !