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Paracas Slideshow
Paracas
Travel Blogs from Paracas, Peru
beschissene Islas Ballestas
... bis aufs Wasser herunter reichte und die Temperatur von T-Shirt auf Fleecejacken-Niveau senkte. Zunächst gings an der Halbinsel von Paracas vorbei, wo sich eine riesen große (weit über 100 Meter) Felszeichnung am Hang befindet: Dr Candelabro de Paracas ...
Ballestos Islands
On route from Lima we visited the Ballestos Islands to see Sealions, Penguins and many species of birds on various islands just off the coast. The sight of thousands of birds both on the islands and flying across the ocean was amazing even if the islands ...
Ballestas Islands
This is the day to visit the Ballestas Islands which we are repeatedly are told are "Peru's Galapagos Islands". We travel to a small coastal community and climb aboard boats to take us out to the islands. It's worth the trip, but hardly ...
Ballestes Islands - Peru's Galapagos
... minutes. The main cathedral collapsed and 500 people were killed. It has not rebuilt. We stayed in the neighbouring small town of Paracas, which was in better condition and in a good location to take an early morning boat tour to the Ballestes Islands, a ...
Popo et Miquette au Pérou
... petites semaines en famille qui se terminent… On en a profité, à s'être presque brûlé dans le désert de Paracas, à s'être un peu mouillé à Cusco, à danser au carnaval d'Ayacucho et à se balader sous le soleil Huancaynais, que demander de ...
Smelly Islands and Cooold desert
... if you go, I recommend his hostel, it has a big picture of a backpacker guy in the front, you cant miss it :) Paracas by itself was hehe, expericense again.. Very small with about 2000 locals living, turistic restaurants and 2 food "shops" where you ...
Paracas - Islas Ballestas
... siesta in camera, per cena, in compagnia dei nostri compagni di viaggio ci dirigiamo al porto ormai deserto e scegliamo uno dei pochi ristorantini aperti. Abbiamo passato una bella giornata, PARACAS è un agglomerato di abitazioni molto piccole sul ...
Ballesta Island
Hei folkens! Blir oppdatering litt i hytt og pine her no for aa faa ting til aa gaa opp, men men:) Fraa hotellet i Paracas, Pisco gjekk vi et par hundre meter ned til brygga. Der hoppa vi ombord i en baat som tok oss paa en guida tur til Ballesta Island. ...
The coastal town of Paracas
After leaving Lima we made our way down to Pisco where we got of our bus to get onto another to make the short trip to Paracas roughly 4 hours south of Lima down the coast of the Pacific Ocean. This is where I got my first real culture shock. We had left ...
Ballestas Islands and Back to Lima
Brady and Jose picked us up early to head for the Paracas peninsula which was about an hour north of Ica. When we got there we were able to take a boat out to see the Ballestas Islands. The boat did not stop at any of the islands, since they ...
Exploration of Peru's desert coast
... a famous landmark of the Paracas National Reserve, but it has unfortunately collapsed with the 2007 earthquake. The wind called "Paracas wind" was quite violent and began to create sandstorms. We stopped in a little fishing village called Lagunillas, to ...
Paracas
Paracas is located right on the cost. Nice beach and really quiert. We did a boot tour to some islands, where we did see ...
Isla Balletas
Die Isla Balletas sind Inseln, die man nicht betreten darf aber mit einer einzigartigen Tierwelt: Perupelikane, Humboldtpinguine, Seelöwen und dass zu tausenden. Vom Boot aus kann man alles beobachten. Auf der Bootsfahrt dahin sieht man die berühmten ...
Birds, birds and mas birds...
Islas Ballestas, Paracas: pelicans, penguins, sealions and moooore birds... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islas_Ballestas Later back in Huacachina chillax at the pool :-) ...
Traveling all day
... While Pisco used to be a tourist center, especially because the national Peruvian drink Pisco is made there.....the shift has been to Paracas and Pisco seems all but forgotten. Juan, our travel help picked us up in Pisco and took us to Paracas ...
Puno to LIma to the beach
We flew from Juliaca to Lima then took the bus south along the coast on our way to the Nazca lines. This is a fascinating trip. What is one of the driest deserts on earth has been made into a lush garden producing significant quantities ...
B. A. Paracas
... up 6000 m. We are on a bus headed south from Paracas on the coast to Arequipa, 2300 m up into the foothills. Paracas was beautiful. A developing tourist town the likes of which we've seen before in Jambiani, Zanzibar, or Dahab, Egypt. ...
WOW!!!
... , soeloever, flamingoer etc. Det var helt enestaaende og vi kan godt forstaa oens betegnelse, som fattigmandsgalapagos.Derefter blev vi droenet ud i en saltoerken, som ogsaa var fantasrisk. Vi kan virkelig se nu, at Peru har alt at byde paa naturmaessigt! ...
Islas Ballestas, Galapagos of Peru
... it smells like it. Anyways, we returned back to the pier, and took off for the northern end of the Paracas National Reserve, which is a national wildlife reserve protecting endangered species. This was unfortunately disappointing. It must have been quite ...
Nov 14, 2010
Seelöwen und Humboldtpinguine
... im Reifen ein Austausch vorgenommen. Nach dem Reifenwechsel hat uns das Auto brav als Kitetransporter zum Spot gedient. Paracas, ein schönes Naturschutzgebiet mit kleinem Ort, hat einen perfekten Flachwasserspot mit gutem, starkem Wind. Die ersten zwei ...
On the gringo trail
Paracas is a small fishing town, yet dominated by tourist trips to the Paracas Peninsular and Ballestras Islands. It was a bit of a shock to the system after being up north, being acosted as I walked along the street by every restaurant and tour operator. ...
Trying, But a Long Way to Go
... it ruins any chance that the dessert terrain may be seen in a beautiful light, but such are the laws of Peru. Before arriving in Paracas, we passed through Pisco which is in shambles from the earthquake in the late 80’s. There is an organization ...
Auf dem Weg nach Lima...
... unglaublich. Heute morgen fuhren wir nach Lima und sind nun 3 Nächte hier. Zuvor haben wir aber noch einen Stop in Paracas eingelegt. Mit einem Boot ging es raus zu den Islas Ballestas. Auf diesen Inseln gibt es Pinguine, Seelöwen, Pelikane und ganz ...
Lost in the dark
... . A few pisco sours later (believe people when they say that 3 pisco sours is 3 too many) and we were totally relaxed in Paracas. The next morning we boarded the boat to Illas Bastellas which was cool - saw lots of dolphins, sea lions, boobies (yes ...