Starting at 8:00 am, pick up from the hotel (city center) or meeting point to go to the AÑASHUAYCO quarries, located in the district of Cerro Colorado, 500 stonemasons work, including men up to 80 years of age and young people who inherit the family tradition, people who every day with their combo, chisel and supported by a rope extract the ashlar.

Now the quarries from which this white material is extracted has been converted into a tourist circuit where the natural landscape and living culture are shown.

Arequipa is known as the White City, white for the mansions, monuments and temples built with ashlar, which led UNESCO to declare this city as "Cultural Heritage of Humanity in the year 2000", in the broken cutters, the front of the church of the Company of Jesus is shown.

The tour explains the process for making ashlar, the beginning of the cut of the Ignimbrite or also known as the white volcanic stone.