Highlight:

Nazca, Over flight enigmatic Nasca Lines, Palpa figures, Oasis Huacachina

 

Duration: Full day from 3:30 am to 6:00pm

Departures: Daily departures from Lima Peru

Activities: Excursion to Paracas, Ballestas Island

Customizable: YES, feel free to ask for extra services

 

Ballestas Island & Paracas Reserve

Visit the Paracas Reserve, take a land tour and explore with our local guide wonderful beaches where you can swim or just walk around searching for marine creatures. Paracas Peninsula offers the perfect scenery for photographers, especially for birdwatchers as the various spots where one can find various types of birds including Inca terns, flamingoes, eagles, pelicans, cormorants, and many others. By exploring the Paracas National Park by land you will not only enjoy a gorgeous landscape.

 

 

 

 

 

You will be picked up from your hotel in Lima at 3:30 am, transfer to the bus station; at 4:15 am you'll take the Cruzero Bus Service upon arrival transferred to the dock of Paracas where we will take a speed boat to visit the Ballestas Islands. During our boat excursion to the Islands you will see many attractions, among them, stands out a huge design etched on the slope of hill, known by the local people as The Candelabra. This is an enormous figure that can be seen clearly from the sea. Our local guide will explain the most important theories concerning this drawing. Afterwards, we will continue our excursion around the Ballestas Islands, where you will see hundreds of birds flying (Peruvian Bobbies, Inca terms, Pelicans, Cormorants and others) above the Islands, as well as dozens of sea lions on the shore of the beaches, and if you are lucky you also can see the famous Humboldt Penguins and dolphins swimming nearby. It is not allowed to land on the Island, which means you will spend all the tour on the boat. After our visit to the islands, we will visit Paracas Reserve. Later on we will visit the centre of interpretation of Paracas, an interesting building that displays through pictures and scale models, all the fauna, flora, and many other important facts about the Paracas Peninsula. Afterwards we will continue our excursion at the Paracas peninsula; we will drive across a yellowish desert, following a dirt road till the fishing village of Lagunillas, a nice place where we will enjoy a good lunch at the shore of the Pacific Ocean. At the 14:30 hrs, you will be transferred to the bus station to take the bus to Lima. Upon your arrival in Lima you will be transferred to your hotel.

Meals Included: Lunch

Price per person: US$ 160

Included:

All scheduled transportation. All transfers. All scheduled excursions with English-speaking guide services. All entrance fees. Meals as specified in the itinerary

Not included in the fee:

International airfares, airport departure taxes or visa fees, excess baggage charges, additional nights during the trip due to flight cancellations, alcoholic beverages or bottled water, snacks, insurance of any kind, laundry, phone calls, radio calls or messages, reconfirmation of international or domestic flights and items of personal nature.