Cajamarca Hotels - Reviews and Rates

we are now living a life of luxury buses, and we arrive feeling very well slept from the over night VIP bus. of course the day starts early grabbing a cab and doing the usual of trying to find a reasonable hostel/hotel. once one is found we head off to the main plaza to explore. cajamarca is really nice.again it has a lovely main plaza, where fa...

Enjoyed an extended stay in Cajamarca and visited a few of the local attractions such as the Incan Baths, were the King Inca Atahualpa was bathing when the Spanish arrived. Other points of interest were Cumbe Mayo , a cave and ancient aqueducts from 1000 BC, very interesting and beautiful. Next was Granja Porcon, a collective Farming operation w...

We arrived in Cajamarca which is a lovely town that is famous for its cheeses, Inca baths and Inca tombs. After a good night sleep we decided to cram as much sightseeing as we could in a day. First stop was a little walk uphill to the Inca tombes which have been built into the hillside- a bit eerie but fascinating. Next we went to a wonderful ga...

Thursday May 17th Cumbe Mayo We paid 20 sol each for tour to Cumbe Mayo with 'In God We Trust' tours, on Plaza de Armas, and our English-speaking guide was Nino. Cumbe Mayo is a Don't Miss, and our choice of tour company could not have worked out better. Nino was excellent. The combi climbs the hills for 20km, to a point less than 10km from Caja...

Today was a strange day, I chose to join a tour of Granja Porcón an evangelist settlement overlooked by God Loves you billboards. I got the impression most the inhabitants didn´t get out much and after trying to get a photo with one of the loom workers, I realized maybe the white devil wasn´t welcome (maybe she smelt the sin on me). Anyhow they ...

after seeing the aqueduct at cumbe mayo this morning, we went to otuzco to see the pre-incan funerary niches carved into the rockface there. the cemetary was more impressive than the aqueduct: it was 337 (there are more, but they´ve been destroyed or grown over by plants) niches in a rock wall that used to have ceramic or rock covers. when peopl...