Paracas, Peru

After spending a night in Lima, we were picked up by the Peru Hop bus early in the morning. We stopped for lunch at a weird theme park thing, where we watched a horse do a dance. We then played Guinea pig tombola and Alex won some bread. It was all very strange.

We reached Paracas in the afternoon. First we did a pisco sour class and learnt how to make the traditional cocktail of Peru. Then we joined a sunset hike in the desert. Paracas is beautiful, because it’s where the red desert meets the Pacific Ocean. The scenery at sunset is unreal. Paracas itself was quite dead. We were expecting more of a party town, but there wasn’t really much going on.

In the morning, we got on a boat and headed to Isla Ballestas (poor man’s Galapagos). We couldn’t get off the boat here but we saw sea lions, penguins and dolphins.

Before leaving paracas, we did a bus tour of the National park to see the desert and ocean scenery again.Read more