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Paracas Slideshow
Paracas
Travel Blogs from Paracas, Peru
Tuesday
After an early 3am start we sety off south, luckly the boats have been mended after the earthquake so our boat trip was back on. Arrived at parracas and got on the boats about 10am. Heading out to the islands we were accompanied by a pod of dolphins ...
Zviratka
... plny gringos (vubec Huacachina je ciste turisticke misto, jsou tu jen hotely, zadne civilni obyvatelstvo) a do pristaviste u poloostrova Paracas jsme se vlekli asi 2 hodiny. V pristavisti to zije prodejem, hotely, restauracemi a vsude jsou spousty ...
Happy Bird-day
... today Felicia gets older, we decided to pack our day with activities! First up, we wake up very early and headed out to Paracas where we visited Las Islas Ballestas - aka poor man's Galapagos. Despite the insanely vast numbers of birdses, I a) did not ...
Fattigmands Galapagos
Den lille soevnige turistflaekke Paracas gav os et tiltraengt pusterum paa rejsen. I selve byen er der ikke meget andet end et par fantastisk gode og billige fiskerestauranter (som vi noed meget godt af), en strand og et par enkelte hoteller. Et af dem er ...
Huacachina
... plus au Nord. Cette fois-ci, j'avais pris mon PC avec moi, ai pu utiliser le wifi et Skyper dans le bus, c'était marrant ! A Paracas, je devais être hébergé par un Couch Surfer, José. Entre le terminal et sa maison, je me suis fait assaillir par les ...
Islas Ballestas + Reserva de Paracas
... 2h30, on a mangé dans un village où tous les restaus étaient prêts à s'entretuer pour rameuter les touristes. A 15h, on est retourné à Paracas, et de là, sans trop traîner, je suis allé à Pisco, d'où j'ai pris un bus pour Lima, en compagnie ...
Paracas
Paracas 22/07/10 Jeudi matin levé à 5h30, direction Paracas à 3h de Lima. Toute petite ville au bord de l’océan ou les pélicans font le spectacle. Sur place visite de la réserve nationale : un désert, tout un programme!! Des fossiles ...
Its all a bit Fishy
... quite a lot of the locals attention constantly chatting to them..making me feel pretty bad that my Spanish is appaling. I arrived into Paracas in the early evening and from what I read on the Internet before, there isn't a great deal to do apart from the ...
Poor man´s galapagos
Just a one night stop in this little town near Pisco, where we took a two hour boat trip to Balletas Island, and it turned out that what we thought would be average was one of the best sights we saw. We admired pinguins, guanacos, sea lions, crabs, there ...
Poor mans Galapagos Island
Up early to catch the small boat out to the Island, the boat was packed with tourists from around the world, I know this because it took the guide 5 minutes to repeat everything into many different languages, though he could have been doing ...
The Poor Man’s Galapagos Islands
We arrived into Paracas around 5pm, and walked for ten minutes from the bus terminal until we reached Paracas Backpackers' House, where we had booked a double room with shared bathroom for S40. The room was clean but basic, and the owner Alberto was an ...
La saga continua
... buen estado, sino también por las vistas increíbles que nos acompañaban. No había casi nada de tráfico y calculábamos llegar a Paracas a tiempo para la puesta de sol. A unos 170 km de Pisco llegamos a un pequeño poblado de la sierra como muchos de ...
Pisco and Paracas
... the taxi driver said that Pisco had become very dangerous for gringos at night we decided to take his advice and head to Paracas. We were instantly glad we did, we managed to find a lovely hotel room with a breakfast terrace overlooking the beach and ...
Küstentour 1 Lima - Paracas
Heute verlassen wir bereits Lima und machen uns auf den Weg Richtung Paracas (=Sandsturm). Durch ärmste Vororte Limas geht es mit dem Bus Richtung Süden in die wüstenähnliche Küstenregion. Von den beiden vordersten Plätzen im oberen Level ...
Ray: Paracas, Peru - The Birds...
Sarah and I went sandboarding on these huge sand dunes in Huacachino. It was awesome. I only got up properly on the board on the last go and I surfed for about 30 metres. Had my arms out for balance and crouched down low. I could feel the sand ...
Ballestas Islands
This place was pretty amazing for the scenary. Got to see some sea lions learn how to swim and dwarf penguins which was really cute. Other than that the place smells of poo the whole time due to the hugeeeeeee amount of birds. Its suppose to be the poor ...
Splat! by Clare
... I sleep for a pleasant 14 hours, unwoken by the departure and reimergence of my mother and Sandra from dinner in 'downtown Paracas'. Following a bread and banana breakfast, we head towards the pier to begin the first of the days ridiculously well priced ...
Birds, Birds and more Birds
A lie-in until 05:20 today – then a short transfer to Paracas. By 08:00, we were onboard a small boat heading out to Ballestas Isalands. It took about 30 mins to get to Ballestas Islands and then we spent about 1 hour circling the various islands. ...
Op naar het zuiden
... geserveerd en voordat we het wisten waren we al in Paracas. Oh ja, Gijs en Tim hebben van begin tot eind geslapen. In Paracas opgevangen door een aardige mevrouw die ons naar het hostel bracht en 's avonds even gegeten en de tours voor de volgende dag ...
Poor Mans Galapagos and Sandboarding!
It was a flying visit to Paracas just to visit poor mans Galapagos - Isla Ballesta. Its a small island with lots of sea lions, penguins and birds. We ate ceviche, shopped around and had a well needed early night. After the boat tour we took the bus ...
Paracas
after two days in Lima, Henri went back to Germany and I arrived at the first stop of my kitesurfing trip, Paracas. Its a little town 4 hours south of lima, which main tourist attraction is its national wildlife reserve with pinguins and alike! Moreover ...
Island hopping, bird watching and dune buggying
Not much to say here, apart from that the few days spent in Paracas, the Islas Ballestas and Huacachina were some of the most fun since we've been here. The Islas Ballestas are like the poor-man's Galapagos Islands, which suited us to a tee. ...
Penguins for Andrew
We got up early (again) to make our way to the ocean so we could see some penguins. I really am not sure what Andrew´s obsession is with these thing but we feed the obsession whenever we can. We got on a boat and out to some small islands about an hour ...
May 28, 2011
Peru, een land van (on)overbrugbare verschillen
... zelf beleven, wil je hier echt diepgang aan kunnen geven. Ondanks dat wij pas een kleine week aan het reizen zijn in Peru, hebben wij een hoop gezien en ervaren. Van diepgaande armoede tot 5-sterren hotels en luxe westerse touringcars tot ...
Crotte d'oiseaux et autres merveilles
... la fin. Demain, nous rentrons a Lima pour prendre notre avion mercredi. Nous avons passe nos deux dernieres journees a Paracas. C'est un endroit vraiment relax. "Relax" n'est peut-etre pas le mot approprie, rien ne semble se ...
Paracas - Galapagos of poor
... and we saw whole colonies of different birds, sea lions, jelly fish and penguins. The second tour of the day was to the Paracas national reserve where you can see the coast from different sides and also enjoy the feel of a vast desert next to the ...
Ballestas Islands, Peru
In Huacachina, we arranged for a trip to see the Ballestas Islands. We reached Paracas, a coastal little town, in about one hour. Then, we got on a boat that took us around the Ballestas Islands. The Ballestas Islands is a collection of rocky islands ...