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Paracas Slideshow
Paracas
Travel Blogs from Paracas, Peru
Poor Man´s Galapagos
... sun....too much sun. The last couple of days have been spent in what felt like directly on top of the equator in Paracas. Even though I slathered sunscreen on myself and sat under an umbrella the entire time, I still managed to acquire an entire body ...
Where the desert meets the sea.
... was smooth (not near as fast as cairns´s thunderbolt but that things just dangerous anyway!) Along the desert peninsula of Paracas we spotted a fisherman wandering along the vast desert towards the ocean, and then an amazing candelabra drawn in the sand ...
More lazing around, but this time in style!
... but we had a go on the training kite that they use to practise their kite manouvreing skills. This morning, we kayacked from Paracas directly south across the bay shown in this map. Apparently you can see all sorts of marine life such as dolphins and ...
Paracas, Peru
... Sour, the drink that we later found out to come free with all restaurant entrances in Cusco. We took a lovely little daytrip to Paracas, National Park. Our guide, Silvo was a hoot. First, the boat trip: saw lots of birds (penguins and such) and sea ...
Paracas, National Park
We are headed off today for a 4 hour drive to Paracas National Park for a freecamp which means no shower or toilet facilities. We are due to goto poor mans Galapagos Isla Ballestas either today or tomorrow depending on sea conditions. We are also due to ...
Playing in the Sandpits of Paracas
... was also badly damaged but nowhere near the same scale and was more damaged by the following tsunamis. Due to tourism Paracas has recovered pretty quickly and some business' from Pisco are now based there instead. Unfortunately Pisco is taking a little ...
Paracas
Headed off from Lima down the coast to Paracas, the Ballestas Islands are a nature reserve where you can see penguins, seals, boobies etc but as I saw this last time I was here I just took a shower, had tea and ice cream and went on the internet. The ...
Paracas
... the place. Eventually we got off and boarded a minibus that took us the fifteen minutes to the small coast town of 'Paracas' near 'Pisco'. A clean and friendly hostel where we dropped our bags and then went for supper to a small restaurant along the ...
Boobies! (Of the Bird Variety That Is...)
... dune by an early civilisation who inhabited the area. Then out to sea we headed and the Ballestas Islands. A national reserve of Peru, we were not allowed to disembark onto the island itself but to be fair I think the better view was from the water ...
La Islas Ballestas
We arrived and were hounded by people trying to get us to stay in their hotel. Our goal was to come to Paracas, see the Islas Ballestas and move on to Lima. We needed to stay for the evening and took the first boat out in the morning to the islands. I ...
Paracas and the Islas Ballestas
... sometimes eat their own babies, so not so impressed by that!! and their wailing was quite incredible too. Next was the Paracas Reserve, a stretch of protected desert. Drove around to various amazing viewpoints where we could check out the dunes of all ...
The poor mans Gallepagos
... fertilizer so it is quite valuable and is collected and sold every seven years. The speedboat brought us back into the pier at Paracas and we headed for nearby Pisco to catch our bus to Lima and something very strange happened here.... We had some time ...
Animal planet
... van ons hostal in Lima hebben we 1 nacht in Paracas ipv Pisco gebleven om van daaruit de Ballestas eilanden en het Paracas natuurreservaat te bezoeken. Zondagmorgen zijn we met een boot vertrokken naar de Ballestas-eilanden, ook gekend als 'the poor ...
**RECIPE** - Peruvian Civeche
Not all 'ceviche' is created equal. First tried this on advice from Ivo in Paracus, Peru. It had been over marinaded so was cooked right through. Shame. Had lots of good ones since. :) If you fancy giving it ago, I can thoroughly ...
Islas Balestas
... dauphins, des goelands (chouette !!), d'autres trucs avec des ailes dont j'ai oublie le nom... Une matinee sympatique :). De retour a Paracas, on s'est rendu compte qu'il n'y avait rien a y faire, alors nous sommes partis directement pour Lima, d'ou ...
The Poor Man´s Galapagos
... has a reputation for crime and I was advised not to visit the beach alone even in the daytime. So I took a trip to the Paracas peninsular which is a protected desert reserve of which only a small area is open to visitors. I saw some fossils and stunning ...
Las Islas Ballestas
... I only passed through here on my way to Lima. I was able to arrange a tour from Huacachina which took me and my luggage to Paracas to visit the poor man´s Galapagos, Las Islas Ballestas. It meant a very early start and some uncertainty as to how I ...
Poormans Galapagos
Islas Ballestas and Peninsula de Paracas. Where we explored islands that are homes to an amazing amount of sea lions, seals, penguins and loads and loads of birds, hence creating layers of sunbaked, nitrogen rich seabird poo! Exported to the US and ...
P-P-P-Pick up a Peruvian Penguin
Wow, just got back from a three hour boat tour around the Ballastas islands. They were amazing. These huge rocks with natural arches and caves covered in the most bizarre mix of birds, including penguins! Also swimming around was a whole colony of sea ...
Paracas and the Isla Ballestas
... 2 Soles, takes half an hour and runs along the coast line making for some great views across the Pacific at sunset. Paracas is a small seaside town consisting of hostels, restaurants, marina and some fishing trade. This town was also badly affected by ...
ab in die Wüste!
... gab, da praktisch der komplette Küstenstreifen aus Wüste bestand, düsten wir in einem Tag durch Lima bis zum Paracas National Park. Hier erholten wir uns vom vielen Fahren und genossen die skurile Wüstenlandschaft in Kombination mit dem Meer... Ja ...
Room with a view
We drove for what Bruno said would be 4 hours, but actually tuned into 6 hours on a public bus.. it wasn´t all bad though. We had some beers and films. This bus is similar to a greyhound bus apart from the lack of toilet. Beers + no toilet = full ...
More Boobys, The Ballestas Islands and Sand Dunes
... was ridiculous. They take all of the faeces every two months and sell it for use as fertiliser and until fairly recently it was Peru's main export. Baffling. There was also a design in the rocks called the "candelabra" - a 120 m etching into the rocks of ...
Guanoproduktion und Sonnenuntergang in der Wueste
... . die Produzenten zu besichtigen. Die Islas Ballestas liegen ca. 4 Stunden suedlich von Lima vor dem kleinen Kuestenort Paracas und werden auch als “Galápagos fuer Arme” bezeichnet. Mit Galápagos koennen sie natuerlich nicht mithalten, ...
Ballestas Islands
... ; The Ballastras Islands are known as the poor man's Galapagos Islands, just off the coast of Ica, in the Reserva Nacional de Paracas. We went out on a speed boat and saw close up, dolphins, brown pelicans, humboldt penguins, blue footed boobys and ...
Not much to say! For once!
Today was a rather uneventful day as we travelled from Lima to Pisco by public bus and then on to Paracas by minibus. This area was absolutely devastated by the 2007 earthquake and the aftermath is still apparent as we travelled through. ...
Paracas
... buildings ruined and killing hundreds. Most of the people that died were from a town called Pisco, which is about 5km from Paracas where we were staying. The main hotel in Paracas was destroyed and you can see piles of rubble where buildings are being ...
Islands Covered in Poop!
Chris- we're not too impressed with the coastal cities south of Lima so we decided to do a day trip to paracas to see Peru's largest pile of bird crap. i know what you're thinking, and no, it was not the most amazing thing we've ever seen. we were ...