Poor man´s Galapagos

Trip Start Oct 23, 2008
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Trip End Dec 18, 2008


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Saturday, November 22, 2008

We got up early this morning to head off to the Ballesta Islands and National park of Paracus.   We piled into a motor boat of about 20 people, put on our bright orange life preservers... safety first... and we were off.   We drove out of the harbor, and stopped to see a cliff carving called the trident -- I believe they said it was over 100m.   tall -- the boat then headed out to sea to a small group of islands named Ballesta.   We saw sea lions, penquins, starfish, pelicans, and migratory birds of all shapes and sizes -- the fact that neither of us got crapped on was a miracle.   We circled these islands snapping photos and stretching our necks to get beautiful views of the wildlife.   Amazing.

We headed back to port -- the seadogs we now were -- and got onto a bus to tour the N.P. Paracas.   We drove through the desert onto a small penninsula -- beautiful beaches, flamingos, sand dunes -- our guide led us through the park, both by foot and bus seeing fossils, a small museum, gorgous views for the rock formations.  At one point we ran into our friend Ross who we had spent time with in Miracora a week or so ago -- we lost our tour.   We had to run to catch up and Iīm sure our tour guide made some comment about being lost, but I didnīt quite make the translation.   Our tour ended in a small cove where local fishermen kept their boats and set up a few restaurants to sell their fresh fish -- Kali ate both octopus and squid --  I am so proud of her -- she didnīt even ask for ketchup.

Our tour ended, we headed back to Pisco to get our luggage, luckily still in storage at our hostal -- we got a cab back out to the PanAm and caught a bus to some fabled oasis deep in the desert.
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