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Paracas Slideshow
Paracas
Travel Blogs from Paracas, Peru
Paracas - between the desert and the ocean
... of the towns we were passing through were ones we did not want to stay in. We were pleasantly surprised when we arrived, Paracas is a pretty little village located between the desert and the ocean. Our hostel was 50m from the boardwalk/beach. After ...
L'île aux oiseaux
Pour aller à voir l'île il faut réserver un bateau (touristique bien sur). Donc là le billet est à 35 soles + une taxe de 6 soles (pour le bateau etc, des voleurs quoi...). Soit un total de 41 soles. Heureusement le bateau va vite et on arrive ...
Paracas
... use as a fertilizer. Peru & Chile went to war for this stuff in the 19th C. Next was a visit Reserva Nacional De Paracas at the northern extreme of the Atacam desert, the driest place in the world! Not a single plant or insect could be seen on ...
Paracas
We got up around 6AM and took a great boat ride to a couple of islands just off the Pacific coast. Kaaren may have known what it was about, but I was just along for the ride. We headed out to sea, paralleling a long peninsula to our left. It was ...
Zurück an der Küste
... 'gängerzonenperuanern (gibt's die bei uns überhaupt noch?) zum Aufbruch nötigen und fahren ins Naturreservat auf der nahegelegenen Halbinsel Paracas, der Ort, an dem das Meer die Wüste küsst und eine großartige Landschaft hat entstehen lassen. Wir ...
Le Perou
Klippen, Wasser, Wind, Toelpel, ...
... Paracas und landeten mitten in der Wueste. Beim Verlassen Limas fuhren wir durch einige Slums, was ziemlich schockierend war. Da Paracas 2007 von einem Erdbeben mit der Staerke 8 heimgesucht wurde, wurde sehr vieles zerstoert und 500 Menschen kamen ums ...
Poor Man's Galapagos
... . Brown Pelicans, and Peruvian Pelican were sitting in the water by the hundreds! Our boat motored toward the shores of Paracas Peninsula where desert meets the ocean. Our guide pointed out El Candelabro, a Geoglyph on shore. His English ...
Ruins and some relaxation time
We made it to Pachacamac...We decided to leave Pisco a night ahead of schedule, because after having seen the islands and the nature reserve...well, there is not much else to see. We managed to walk through all of `downtown` within 15 minutes and that ...
Første dag med GAP - Sidste dag i Lima
... lød at vi kl 13.00 skulle med en bus til Pisco eller nærmere betegnet en lille by syd for Pisco der hedder Paracas. Busturen ville tage 4-5 timer og vi skulle derfor ankomme til at vi kunne spise aftensmad sammen og måske kigge os lidt omkring. Vi ...
Sand dunes, Paracas & a Really smelly Island
the road from nasca to Lima passes through the small oasis town of Ica and the beachside town Paracas. We stopped at both of these places. firstly we stopped at Ica and1 jumped in the suped up dune buggies each buggy had a 6 litre V8, 9 seats and minimal ...
Paracas - Islands of Ballastas
Hola! So we were about to head to Huacachina but as we were leaving the hostel we were told about this place called Paracas...so a last minute decision had us heading to Paracas - no accommodation booked - just winging it! The joys of undecided travel We ...
Paracas
... a pris en plus de ses passagers 1h45 après la panne de notre bus, on a donc pas vraiment été a l'heure pour dejeuner a Paracas... mais bon... On a passé l'après midi sur la plage a paracas, a se baigner rapidement dans le pacifique mais elle ...
Paracas and the Ballestas Islands
About a 1 hour drive from Ica, we head to the coastal town of Paracas. From the time we entered the town we had a guy literally latch on to the car and ran while we drove to the port (he held on for about 3-4 minutes still running and then harrassed ...
The poor man Galapagos
... town of Pisco (S.2 each). From there we got another collectivo (S.1.50 each) out to the Pan American highway where we jumped on a Peru Bus (S.18 each) and off to Lima with us. Again we could have taken the easier option of just getting a Cruz del Sur bus ...
Sea lions, penguins & lots of birds
With a slightly uneventful weekend in Lima me & Ben headed to Paracas to do a trip out to the Ballestas Islands to see one of the biggest sea lion colonies in the world, plus penguins & loads of birds. It was a bumpy 30min jet boat out to the ...
The Move to Paracas
... is currently still be rebuilt due to its destruction caused by the 2007 Earthquakes. After our 4 hour bus trip we finally arrived in Paracas, which is a beautiful coast town. We had a quiet afternoon, and all went out to lunch on the seaside. For lunch i ...
Islas Ballestas
Anscheinend sind die Islas Ballestas die Galapagos fuer die aermeren Leute. In frueheren Zeiten aber haben die Inseln eine viel groessere Rolle gespielt als heute die Galapagos. Um den heiss begehrten Guano wurden sogar Kriege ausgefochten...Guano ist ...
Reserve de Paracas et ses paysages lunaires
L'entrée de la Réserve Naturelle est de 5 soles. Cependant il n'est pas possible d'y entrer à pied car c'est beaucoup trop grand et donc il est nécessaire de prendre un taxi qui lui ne se gêne pas sur le prix (20 soles), nous sommes malgré tout ...
Arabian nights - in Peru...
... 5am this morning! got into our new home for the next 6 weeks - a truck called "Cindy"? We travelled from Lima to Paracas, where we took an eventful boat trip to the Ballestas Islands nicnamed the poor mans gallapagos. Our guide told us that Paracas ...
May 12, 2010
Ballestas Islands
Today was the last early wake up of our trip. We were up at 6 am and were picked up in Pisco at 7am and taken to Paracas which is 15 km away. At 8 am we were on a large speedboat which took us out to the Ballestas Islands, which are also called the poor ...
Wives, Pelicans and a Dick load of Birds!
... we realise that we have in fact had a small crash. Obviously. We take this opportunity to nab two of the rather fabulous blankets (Peru is very cold at night and we are broke travellers!). We have to wait for another bus to finish the journey. We get out ...
P-p-p-p-pick up a pinguino!
... waves. After our early start to catch the trip, we were back on dry land by 10am so went to book a bus to leave Paracas that afternoon. We caught a bus to Lima, from where we had flights booked to Panama City a couple of days later. The ...
Poor man's Galapagos
... middle aged woman and her mother, who ranted and raved about us not being married...did she not see our coca wedding rings?! Paracas is a tiny costal town which is sooo touristy, it´s almost ruined. It has a promenade with lots of restaurants and ...
Penguins, flamingos and boobies!!
... . Paracas is a southern coastal desert town that lies at the base of a giganic peninsula and is the entry to Paracas National Reserve, a giganic nature preserve. The following day we took a bus to Paracas and boarded the 8am Penguino I speedboat to ...
The Mini-Galapagos Called Islas Ballestas
... bus. There was a pillow and a blanket and the seat was wide and reclines to up to 60 degrees. The bus terminal in Paracas is exclusively for Cruz del Sur like in Lima. The conductor gave me breakfast packed in a styrofoam and wrapped with plastic on ...
Rich mans Farne Islands
... from some hair loss condition but we have seen them since and I think it’s just some usual Peruvian breed. We were only really in Paracas for one reason and that was the Islas Bellestas. So the next morning we got up and set off on a boat trip, past ...