Ballestas Islands

Our final day started with us being picked up at our hostel in Ica for the Ballista's Islands your in Paracas. The ride was 50 mins away and we brought all of our stuff since we were not coming back. It was a 2 hr boat tour. A few mins out of dock we ran into a pack of dolphins. We stayed there for a few mins and then traveled farther out of port. Eventually we reached the end of a peninsula, where there is a giant image drawn in the rock/sand face. It's still there due to the lack of rainfall and lack of wind on that particular face. Nobody knows when it was out there or by who, but it's been there since at least 1860, and it might be a lot older. When we reached the islands you could see thousands of sea birds. It was fun looking at all the birds, and we got to see wild penguins! They live so far away from Antarctica. There were also quite a few sea lions that called the islands home. After the boat tour, they had some sort of boardwalk in which we found lunch and waited for the bus. Finding the bus stop was an interesting task. There were no signs and people were giving us vague directions in Spanish. We finally went to this construction site that was closed off and near where we thought it was. It turned out that, that was the place we wanted in the end.Read more