Pisco Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Having got the bus from Ica to Pisco... we got off at the crossroads of the panamerica highway... and were bombarded by taxi`s being the only gringos getting off the bus... we finally got one who would take us to Pisco... although he seemed surprised we wanted to go... he had most of his teeth missing but he had a trustworthy grin! We had kept s...

We were wondering why the roads were so bumpy arriving into Pisco last night, daylight sheds some light... the town was mostly all destroyed in 2007 by an earthquake, 40% of people lost their houses and are now living in a shanty sort of town outside Pisco...again it makes you appreciate what you have. There still seems to be a real community sp...

The next morning, Mark and I travelled on a bus from Lima to Pisco. It took about 3 hours and the road followed the coastal desert. We found that Lima´s slums spread out a long way, and the whole city was an environmental hazard, with the roads and coasts being refuse sites. They do not have any sort of rubbish disposal here, so it all gets dump...

This was a great couple of days. Left Nazca early in the morning and went in an "American" taxi up the Pan Americano highway. It was a 1970 Ford, and was still in original condition, with the original owner still driving it. When I say original condition, rust, broken windows and all. We drove through the desert windows down, and being the talle...

Hi all, After my overnight stay at Lima, I am traveling again down the coast to Pisco. I really have no intention of staying here because I heard that after the earthquake last year, everything was practically destoyed. I had to come down here because on eht the tourist attraction of Ballestas island and National Reserve of Paracas is just down ...

We poor backpackers go to Pisco to sample some of the wildlife of the Galapagos at a tiny fraction of the cost. The nearby Ballestas Islands are certainly no replacement for the real thing, but they do provide the opportunity to see penguins, sea lions, and until recently, flamingoes. The town itself was destroyed by an earthquake last year, and...

Hi everyone, Well, I've decided to extend my stay and so I'm probably going to be in Pisco until the end of April. I'm now due to fly out from Lima to Madrid on 06May. I'll need to do a border run to Bolivia to reset my 90 day visa sometime soon...so I'll take a week off from the hard work and spend a few days on some buses!! :) I do really love...

So last Friday we made our way by public bus to a town near Pisco with our GAP group. As we got close to Pisco, there was rubble everywhere from the houses, walls and buildings that fell during the earthquake in September. A lot of people were living in tents and make-shift shelters. Luckily it doesn´t rain much in this part of the country and t...

After arriving in Pisco last night, we walked around the small, smelly, dirty town, until we got hungry. After we ate dinner, we found our tour to the Islas de Ballestas and to the Parque Nacional de Paracas. I have heard some really good things about the Islas de Ballestas, so I was pretty excited to check them out. To sum it up in a paragraph,...

We wasted our 4th of July in Pisco waking up very early and going on a tour to Isla Ballestas and Paracas Natural Reserve because we had heard over and over again that it is really pretty and that we'd see many cool animals. Well, we saw some animals - lots of Peruvian Boobies (a type of bird) and seagulls, a handful of sea lions, a few penguins...