Paracas National Reserve/Ballestas Islands

See previous post for first part of my trip. This post is mostly just photos from my tour of the Paracas Peninsula and the Ballestas Islands. It would have been much more beautiful if it wasn't such a foggy day, but I guess it's kind of a cool effect.

Paracas peninsula, where General San Martin began his liberation of Peru

The Candelabra of the Andes, a geoglyph with unknown origins. One hypothesis is it is a jimson weed, which ancient Peruvians might have obtained in California and used this as a return landmark, as there is a similar one drawn on a rock in California.

 

 

 Ballestas Islands

 

Pingüinos closest to the ecuator

 

some lovebirds (I can't remember what they were called) and pelicans

 

more lovebirds

 

The black and white masses on the island are the different types of birds, ahhh!

 

 

 

 

 

 

whoa.