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Paracas Slideshow
Paracas
Travel Blogs from Paracas, Peru
Parque Nacional de Paracas
Parque Nacional de Paracas esta localizado a 20 km ao sul de Pisco. E constituido por uma regiao arida com mais de 50 praias ao redor. Ali foram localizados fosseis de dinossauros de milhoes de anos. Tambem e um dos maiores reserva ecologica dos flamingos ...
26. - 28.4. Lima a Paracas
... vyhledy z utesu na more a pobrezi a celej vylet je zakoncenej navstevou mistni rybarske vesnicky. Davame si zde obed. Zatim nam v Peru docela dost chutna, Lenka se nam tu navic zamilovala do IncaColy. Po obede se vracime do Paracasu. V tomhle mestecku ...
Overcoming the butterflies
... sat next to me. He new how to speak a little English & soon realized we were on the same bus. I was getting off in Paracas and he was traveling further to Nazca. He asked if he could sit next to me on the bus and I said no problemo. Once I ...
Weekend in Paracas
... pingviner og flere ulike fuglearter og sjøløver/seler. Etter båtturen fant vi på at vi ville leie sykler for å sykle inn i Paracas nasjonalpark. Her syklet vi langs veier og inn i et tørt ørkenlandskap, helt til vi fant en resturant nede ved ...
Lima to Paracas, Peru: Where desert and ocean meet
... Hotel Esperanza In Lima at 6:45 a.m. to the modern air-port-like bus terminal of Cruz del Sur for a 3.5 hour bus ride to Paracas, Peru on the Pacific Coast. Check-in was also airport-like. Bags were weighed and checked and everyone had to have their ...
Jour 1 : Paracas
Cette soiree-la, nous avons eu la chance de danser la salsa avec des amoureux de la danse. Je me suis beaucoup amusee. Par contre, le lendemain, nous avons eu la facture et nous nous sommes apercues que nous devions payer tous les "drinks" des ces ...
Ballestas Islands and Parcas National Reserve
Today was a big day - two tours the first to the ballestas islands and second to the Paracas National Reserve. We are picked up at 8am by a speed boat (carrying about 30 tourists). First we stopped by the Paracas Trident, a 170m high carving in the ...
Sur la côte
... pas jusqu'au village de Pisco) et la grande négociation avec le chauffeur de taxi. Il nous suggère d'aller directement dormir à Paracas. Alors, c'est parti, pour 25 soles à nous 3. Il nous dépose à l'hôtel Island où nous prenons une chambre ...
Ballestas Islands
... with my stomach I tell ya! I was a bit tired today. I am noticing I am getting a bit tired the more we travel in Peru than when we were in China in 2007. And the journey just started! I almost slept on the ride going to the Ballestas and on the ...
Not going ashore
Not a lot here except the National park that is supposed to be very good but not for me. We saw a submarine go by early and the sailors are using the local beach for some fresh air. Off to Machu Picchu tomorrow so need to get chest better ...
Surviving the Ballestas Islands
... forget. Due to my sea sickness and still not feeling better, unfortunately we passed on the visit to the Paracas Peninsula by land. Carlos brought us earlier to the bus station where we departed at 3:30PM for our ...
Unforgetable Views of a Oceanfront Village!
... , called Loma-Vegetation, have adapted to these conditions to survive the desert climate. Photographers can use these tips about Peru's Paracas National Reserve along with comments about the area. The Islas Ballestas are seen only from the sea. Visitors ...
Paracas
Day Three Arrived in Paracas at 11 after and early start in Lima at 7. Pararcas unlike the idyllic village it was described as, was a small crummy, smelly village with almost nothing to do... Being vegetarian in a fishing village - epic fail. Had to ...
Poor Man's Galapogas and Desert
... create fertilizer) sea lions and penguins. A Humboldt current runs from Antarctica or Chile in the South and sends cool Ocean currents up to Paracas where the water temp is a cool 15 degrees but the air is dry and the sun strong. The 2 hour boat ...
So not Pisco then?
... us were very excited to visit the home of the drink we had so come to love. But it turns out we were staying in Paracas, a little sea-side town about half an hour south of Pisco. So Far.... not good. We arrived quite late after our adventure at ...
Paracas ...das Galapagos für Arme
... und sind raus aus Lima. Ist zwar ne interessante Großstadt, aber eben auch teuer. Da zieht es uns doch eher nach Paracas, ein kleiner Ort südlich von Lima. In Paracas ist überhaupt nichts los ... Bis auf die kleinen Inseln (ähnlich ...
May 28, 2011
Un peu de repos sur la côte
... vers Lima et de longer la côte pacifique vers le sud en direction d´Arequipa. Nous en avons profité pour faire un arrêt à Paracas (après une journée de 13 heures de bus). Paracas est une péninsule située en plein désert, au climat très ...
Islas Ballestas
... After an early night to bed we arrived at the port with our tour to find that a million people had descended upon the tiny Paracas overnight from god knows where and there was a chaotic hoard of people all wating to board their boats! We got stuck with a ...
Tons of birds
Just next to Paracas National Reserve, from El Chaco, a small port, we set sail, well sorry ....not exactly as we took a speed boat, but anyway we went across to the Ballestas Islands. Halfway out to sea we went past the famous Candelabro, a ...
Sunsets over the Pacific
... and the 4 hour drive to Paracas on the Southern Coast brought no relief...only more dust. Pisco (the town closest to Paracas) was devastated by a massive earthquake in 2007. More powerful and longer than the one that just devastated Chile and with it and ...
Guano, lots of it
Photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=45713&l=c6a81&id=551865803 Mon 31 March We walked to the port (about 2mins) and got on a new speed boat with about 40 other people. Our first stop was the Candelabra, 177m tall and a metre deep, ...
Paracas and Ballestas Islands
... meant to go to Pisco but mother nature flattened it with an earthquake in August so we went to a small town nearby called Paracas. When I say town that is probably pushing it really - fishing village is about right. The only reason to go there ...
Jour 2 : Les îles Ballestas
À environ trois quarts d'heure de bateau de Paracas, il y a les îles Ballestas. Sur ces îles , il y a différentes variétés d'oiseaux de mers : cormorans, pétrels, manchots. Parmi ces ovipares il y a les loups marins et..... des roches. De ...
Pelicans, boats and boobies
One hour away from Huacachina is the Paracas Reserve, or El Chaco which is the name of the beach village just on the edge of the reserve. Just off the coast here are found the Ballestas Islands, sometimes known as the poor man's Galapagos, land inhabited ...
Pinguino & the Poor Man´s Galapagos
Reserva Nacional de Paracas: Poor Man´s Galapagos. As we wandered onto the esplanade it was clear this was a one horse town. Our hotel for the night overlooked the harbour and had a cool breeze blowing off the seafront, which fronted a million and one ...
Feb 25, 2011
Down by the coast
... Arequipa brought us to the coast. We had not seen the Pacific coast yet except from the plane and it seemed promising despite Paracas being a not very interesting town. However it is a good base to do things and we needed to break the journey ...