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CARAL, the Oldest Civilization in América
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CARAL, the Oldest Civilization in América

By KulTour Peru
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Ages 2-99
Duration: 16h
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Mobile ticket
Live guide: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
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Audio guide: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
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Written guide
Print or digital reading material such as a guide, map, brochure, etc.
: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
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  • Local taxes
  • Snacks
  • Professional guide
  • All activities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Guaranteed to skip the long lines
  • Transport by air-conditioned minivan
  • All ticket entrances
  • Guaranteed to skip the lines
What's not included
  • Souvenir photos (available to purchase)
  • tips (optional)
  • Lunch, the meals in this region are $10.00 approximedtly


Start:Traveler pickup offered.
    Pickup details
    • We will pick up in all the hotels in Barranco, Miraflores and San isidro
    Hotel pickup offered
    During checkout you will be able to select from the list of included hotels.
      End:This activity ends back at the meeting point.

        • Wheelchair accessible
        If you have questions about accessibility, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 69545P11

        • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
        • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
        • Children must be accompanied by an adult
        • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
        • Most travelers can participate
        • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate

        • For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours in advance of the start date of the experience.

        If you have questions about this tour or need help making your booking, we’d be happy to help. Just call the number below and reference the product code: 69545P11

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        About the operator
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        • KulTour Peru
          214
          Lima, Peru
          Joined in July 2017
        • javiersR723KU
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          100% recommendable, you cover great part of Lima!!!
          Pachacamac is a great arqueological site that not many people know about it and if you like the history, its 100% recomendable, then we stop in a place for a lunch (its not included) after that we went to city tour around Lima and was a great afternoon knowing the Monastery of Saint Francisco de Asis, Catacombs and highlight areas in Downtown, we enjoyed the experience.
          Written June 1, 2024
        • javiersR723KU
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Fantastic Lima City Tour
          Thank you ! to the company we take 3 tours with the company and each tour was incredible our tour guide was the same Jordan and our driver was Michael in these 3 different experiences, highly recommendable they may you experience fantastic.
          Written June 1, 2024
        • javiersR723KU
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Great people! nices places
          Amazing experience! thank you our tour guide Jordan and driver Michael, this was a nice learning about the history and the places, very informative and knowledgeable, we didn't feel this as a tour it was more like our family or a great friend, its not a conventional activity. thank you again, 100% recommendable
          Written June 1, 2024
        • Sarina B
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Unique experience
          This is the best tour you can do in Lima! Jordan was an outstanding guide which brought me first to the local market of the village, showed me everything and gave me so many fruits to try. He was caring, his knowledge is huge and he did every effort to make it an unforgettable experience for me and even helped me to get in touch with the locals. The school visit was the best experience ever, you can get in touch with the students and teachers easily and see a real public school from the inside. The village is authentic and you can see how people live there and how there daily life looks like. This was one of the best experiences I've ever had while travelling!
          Written April 20, 2024
        • jessican788
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Pachacamac is a wonderful experience
          Sophia was absolutely amazing. She shared so much knowledge with me, in her wonderful communication skills that I can easily recall most of the exciting and interesting details to friends and family later on (instead of just saying vaguely "I had a great day"). The Pachacamac museum is really good, with so much details and information across all their exhibits and displays.
          Written March 4, 2024
        • E1885ERelisas
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Great experience
          It was a great experience to get to know more about the culture and the story of the Pachacamach temple and Lima with my guide Sophie. She is an excellent guide with a vast knowledge. I really enjoyed the time with her and I have learned a lot. Sophie was always there for me and answered professionally to all my questions. Michael was our driver and he had extreme care of us, driving us around the temple in a tremendous hot weather. I highly recommend this tour and the tour operator.
          Written February 11, 2024
        • dorinas312
          0 contributions
          3.0 of 5 bubbles
          Great guide for not a great experience
          Our guide Mairol was great, but there really was very much to see. The light show was half closed for some event, and many were not working. Way to expensive for what was seen. Also had to pay extra for pick-up.
          Written November 4, 2023
        • NycLiza
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Nice enjoyable day
          Beautiful colorful water fountain show. Dinner with show was awesome! Great birthday experience to do.
          Written October 28, 2023
        • ambrishb2018
          0 contributions
          3.0 of 5 bubbles
          Visit to magic water show
          The guide was very helpful and interesting. However, her English accent was very hard to understand. The show was excellent and the guide took a lot of time to explain and show all the fountains in the oark.
          Written August 26, 2023
        • D249IQlaurenh
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Beautiful Night !!!
          We really enjoyed the Show and the park is fantastic, we didnt expect many fountains and meanings all around, the guide was awesome, we pass skiping the long line, Jordan did a great job, after the show we go the restaurant for the dinner show, we really like it , it finish a little late 10:00pm we back at the hotel around 10:25pm. our driver was nice too, thank you KulTour Perú.
          Written November 4, 2022
        • D249IQlaurenh
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          GREAT DAY !
          We really enjoyed the all day, history and culture in the first visit in Pachacanac huge arqueological site, later was the city tour very good too, Jessica gice us a Churro, she was avery nice tour guide our driver too was great person, after that we been in the magic water show, we really loved, later the restaurant with the show, so cool the scissor dancing and the peruvian paso horse.
          Written November 2, 2022
        • 189jeffersonh
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Culture, History AMAZING
          Great Agency 100% recommend Sophia was a our tour guide, great knowlodge and fantastic person, they been very responsable with everything and we feel safe all the time, our driver hector nice person. thank you guys :)
          Written October 26, 2022
        • 189jeffersonh
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Amazing Experience ! i love the horses
          Fantastic ! very beautiful i really love the horses, to be honest my father had a horse farm when i be young, nice memories came to my mind when i been in the Hacienda. The show and the tour A1. 100% recommend the tour, the tour guide in the arqueological site and in the Hacienda speak a very fluently english, thank you Jordan and thanks to the driver Manuel.
          Written October 26, 2022
        • Dryanwang
          0 contributions
          1.0 of 5 bubbles
          Not worth the money at all.
          The company is very unresponsiveness. No body assure the phone or call us to confirm the pick up time at 4 .30 AM for next day. We booked privet luxury tour for two people and paid oven $1300 , but the hotel was not even a mobile style . it is a comping ground . No heat, No bathroom. No furniture except only two mattress. Not worth the money at all. But the tour guide (Jordan) and driver (hector) are very nice and responsible. Thanks
          Written September 21, 2022
        • 372felicel
          0 contributions
          5.0 of 5 bubbles
          Thanks for the experience
          The whole experience was great!. Two days full of landscapes, culture, fun, great food and amazing tour guide (Jordan) and driver (hector). Very recommended if you don’t have to much time in Peru. Thanks for the experience!
          Written September 7, 2022
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        Akbar1234
        Pennsylvania58 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Visiting Caral, the oldest civilization in the Americas, 7000 yrs old, older than ancient Egypt, should be on everyone's itinerary when visiting Peru. It is far more significant than Machu Picchu, but less than 100 tourists visit Caral daily. Of course, the remoteness, really bad roads (once you get off the Pan American hwy) and the cost of a day trip (about $150pp) may be a deterrent, but if people are willing to pay up to $300 to visit Machu Picchu, there should be no excuse to miss this extraordinary archeological site. The scenery around the desert is breathtaking, and the required guided tour of the site, which is only 20 sol for a group of 10 (In addition to the site admission charge of 15 sol pp) offers a refreshing perspective for understanding the unique histories of the earliest peoples in the Americas and their great accomplishments.

        Best way to visit and save money in the process - rent a compact 4 wheel drive (for the bad section of the road, which is the last 15 km around the site) from Lima Airport (with all insurance about $90 and about $40 in gasoline) and this way, you avoid all the horrendous driving and traffic around Lima and easily can access the Pan American highway (tolls about 20 sol each way for a car) to drive up to Caral. The 3 hr drive to Caral passes beautiful landscapes through the deserts, mountainous terrain, along the Pacific coast.

        For a family of 4, doing the whole day trip cost us less than what tours charge for one person to visit Caral.
        Written July 1, 2024
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        Lauren h
        5 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Oct 2022
        We traveled 3 hours from our hotel to Caral in the way we did an stop to have breakfast, going to the north part is very nice the landscapes and desert, by the way the tour guide was awesome, we been learning a lot of the sociaty, lanscapes an d nature, Jordan Mendieta was amazing, thank you to KulTour Perú and the driver for an amazing job, the arqueological site was great! obviusly with the complemente of the tour guide is much better beacuse we understand more, after that we stopped in some fields to buy some strawberries, from the land, we really loved that, the tpour very personalized and the luch was sea food, i dont like the fish, but they give another option, i really appreciate that. high recomendable tour ! if you have apssion for history, thank you hector our driver and Jordan the tour guide
        Written November 4, 2022
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        David O
        3 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Dec 2021
        Amazing Civilization CARAL !

        Waooo ! Is incredible, 5000 years old of history! Jordan is one of the best tour guides that i had before, very gentelman and great tour guide that you could ask anything, thank you José our driver and KulTour Perú ! i really enjoyed everything!
        Written December 13, 2021
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        TieKing
        New York City, NY31 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        Apr 2019 • Family
        This is a great tour and a great tour company! We had had a bad experience with one of the bigger tour companies in Lima and I asked the concierge at our hotel for a recommendation for a tour company to use. They suggest KulTour. First off I liked that it was a small personal tour, not a big bus tour. We were picked up on time and on our way. Jordan the guide was very personable and wanted to get to know us. Jorge the driver was great behind the wheel. The ride was long but Jordan told us about himself as well as the history of Peru. The tour at Caral is given by a local as per regulations, but Jordan translated for us (perfectly) and added other facts that he knew as well. The trip included lunch and my family tend to be picky eaters so Jordan made sure that there was something we would eat at the restaurant. He even offered to share his so we could get a taste of an authentic Peruvian dish. One last thing. I had said that we had a bad experience on a big bus tour (see my other review) and he actually took the time to fill us in on the things that we missed hearing about. He was so good I booked a tour of some of the same sights with KulTour the next day (and we were happy to have Jordan and Jorge again!). I am supposed to come back to Peru and will definately be using KulTour again.
        Written April 21, 2019
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        Hi dear. How are you, we are very happy that you enjoyed this place and our country. Many greetings and a hug in the distance.
        Written May 30, 2019
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        Giovanna Angéli... Q
        4 contributions
        5.0 of 5 bubbles
        May 2024 • Friends
        It was a rewarding and very interactive visit, I loved meeting Caral, thank you for the friendly and Pro attention, Kultour Peru.
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        Written August 23, 2024
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