Peru: Pisco and the Ballestas Islands

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10/04 to 11/04/13: Pisco and the Ballestas islands

Pisco has been badly touched by the 2007 earthquake and the re-build just started. One can still witness broken homes, empty spaces, and left cathedral. The main cathedral on the main Plaza is still there but a new church has been build next to it. The town itself offers nothing to the tourist but travel agencies will sell you half-day tour to the islands Ballestas part of the Paracas Reserve Park.

On a 2 hours boat ride, you will see the Paracas Candelabra, also called the Candelabra of the Andes, is a well-known prehistoric geoglyph - created on the sand by the Paracas people more than 2000 year ago. Like the Nasca Lines, there is a lot of theories about the meaning of the sign. On the rocks, we saw birds like pelicans, penguins, cormorants, Peruvian boobies but also mammals like see-lions.

We didn't bother with the reserve it-self and Tambo Colorado (lost city of the pre-inca) as the agency didn't seems very well documented about the history and didn't give much information.

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