Islas Ballestas, the Poor Man's Galapagos
November 18th 2008 Day 597 (15.11.08)
The Islas Ballestas are perched offshore from Paracas just north of where we´d been staying. An hour or so on the bus took us to this little town which was all but devastated last year as a result of a 7.9 earthquake. There is now a huge amount of construction work going on to repair the homes and businesses in the area.
Finding our way through the building sites we were s
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