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| The Candelabra - 1500yrs old |
After leaving Lima and driving for hours through the barren desert, past still mostly devastated areas that were ruined during the 2007 earthquake, we reached Paracas. A tiny town whose only reason for being appeared to be as a jumping off point to Los Islas Ballestas. Nicknamed 'the poor man's Galapagos' these tiny islands about half an hours speed boat ride from the mainland are home to around 7 million seabirds. And couldn't we smell them, from around 200m the odour hit us like a wall. But if we held our breath we could appreciate the sheer scale of them. Brown pelicans, penguins, cormorants, boobies (G's favourites) and noisy sea lions basking in the sun. So many birds that they coloured the islands black and white. But while they cause a constant stink, these birds provide Peru with a very valuable income - guano. When the islands were first discovered they were 30m deep in the stuff.
After the islands we went on a mildly boring tour of the nearby Paracas National Park, a mostly desert landscape with massive cliffs and miles of dust in varying colours.
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| The colours on the hill are birds |
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