Paracas Peru

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Day 41 Today was a free morning allowing for a welcome sleep-in after the late night drinks last night. After breakfast in pleasant temperature we walked the Miraflores promenade overlooking the beach to get some much needed exercise. We returned to the hotel by 1pm to load our luggage into a minivan back to Lima's bus station for another local bus to our next stop, Paracas (approx 3 hrs).

The trip down was along the coast with some obvious nice beachside housing scattered along the way while on the opposite side of the highway the initial outlook was mostly bald sandy hills occasional scattered with shanty towns but then opening up to some agricultural farming on flat plains.

Paracas & Pisco are neighbouring small fishing towns and the gateway to the Ballestas Islands and the Paracas National Reserve but the latter is also most famous as the birthplace of Peru's national drink, the pisco sour, made from a local brandy of the same name.

Ballestas is the reason for our stop as it is a protected nesting ground for vast numbers of sea birds, including pelicans, humboldt penguins, terns, boobies & cormorants with sea lions soaking up the sun.

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Comments

[Steve]

Full on!
Just read your last 3 posts, sounds like it's been pretty hectic - you must be burnt out!!