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Two of Lima's real pre-Inca pyramids in one private half-day, both hiding in the middle of the modern city.
Explore two genuine pre-Inca huacas — Huaca Pucllana in Miraflores and Huaca Mateo Salado — with a private guide who explains how these ceremonial adobe complexes fit into Lima's pre-Columbian history.
Most visitors only see Huaca Pucllana. This private tour adds Huaca Mateo Salado, a lesser-visited adobe complex, so you leave with a fuller picture of how many separate ceremonial huacas once dotted the Lima valley long before the Spanish arrived.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup and drop-off included.
The well-known adobe and clay pyramid complex in the heart of Miraflores.
A quieter, less-visited pre-Inca ceremonial complex with real archaeological depth.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Explore two genuine pre-Inca huacas — Huaca Pucllana in Miraflores and Huaca Mateo Salado — with a private guide who explains how these ceremonial adobe complexes fit into Lima's pre-Columbian history. Most visitors only see Huaca Pucllana. This private tour adds Huaca Mateo Salado, a lesser-visited adobe complex, so you leave with a fuller picture of how many separate ceremonial huacas once dotted the Lima valley long before the Spanish arrived.
Huaca Pucllana is the better-known and better-restored of the two sites on this tour: built by the Lima culture around the 5th century AD as a ceremonial and administrative center, then repurposed centuries later, after the Wari culture's rise around 700 AD, as an elite burial ground. It's the huaca most visitors to Lima actually see, in part because sustained excavation work there goes back to 1981 and the complex now has its own site museum.
Huaca Mateo Salado tells a different, later chapter of the same valley's history. Spanning more than 16 hectares between the Breña and Pueblo Libre districts, the complex was built by the Ichma culture around 1100 AD — roughly four centuries after Huaca Pucllana was already abandoned — as its own administrative and ceremonial center, and it was later reoccupied by the Inca after the Ichma were absorbed into their empire in the 15th century. The complex is made up of five truncated, stepped pyramids rather than one single structure; the largest, Pyramid A, measures roughly 150 meters long and 18 meters high and served as the site's main temple.
Mateo Salado's modern restoration came much later than Pucllana's: Peru's Ministry of Culture only began formally recovering the site in 2007, and by 2013 just three of its five pyramids had been investigated, conserved, and opened to visitors — by the Ministry's own published figures, roughly a third of the complex's total area. That more recent, slower-moving restoration timeline is a large part of why it sees far fewer visitors than its more famous neighbor, even though it's a comparable size and tells a genuinely different part of pre-Hispanic Lima's story.
Seen together, the two sites make the point this tour is built around: Lima's modern grid of apartment towers and traffic sits directly on top of a valley that once held dozens of separate ceremonial centers, built by different cultures across more than a thousand years, long before the Spanish ever arrived.
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