Samana Wasi is located in the tourist part of Arequipa, it is just a 5 minute-walk from the Main Square (Plaza de Armas) in down town, where you will find: restaurants, bars, discos, supermarkets, travel agencies, banks and handicraft markets.
Also it is a few minutes walking from the monastery of Santa Catalina 'A city within a city', with its cloisters and colonial art works.