7:45AM you will pick-up from your hotel and transfer to the wharf of the beach El Chaco. Aboard the speedboat for the marine excursion to Ballestas Islands. During the navigation surrounded bay of Paracas, is appraised San Martín Bay, soon appearing the mysterious ancient figure of Candelabrum facing the sea. Finally arrive to Ballestas Islands, the deposits of Marine wildlife as Guaneras seabirds have an interview that in their natural habitat constitute, by their capricious and beautiful forms, sea lions, penguins, and beautiful landscapes of the Peruvian Coast.
After two hours of marine wildlife experience, we return to the wharf of El Chaco.
11AM aboard our private transport to drive from Paracas to Ica (1hr) and visit one of the most popular vineyards as known as "bodegas vitivinicolas"; where you will see, learn and taste the Peruvian national drink as known as Pisco (grape brandy) and of course you can taste many kinds of local wines produced by the farmers using artesian methods.
12M transfer to the one of the best archaeological museums in Peru, this is Museo Regional de Ica Adolfo Bermudez Jenkins. It houses mummies, ceramics, textiles, grave artifacts, trophy heads and trepanned skulls from Paracas, Nazca, Ica, Huari and Inca cultures. The most striking of the museum’s collections is its display of Paracas textiles, the majority of them discovered at Cerro Colorado on the Paracas Peninsula by Julio C. Tello in 1972. One of the rooms shows some exquisite Nasca pottery, undoubtedly the most colorful and abstractly imaginative designs found on any ancient Peruvian ceramics.
2PM transfer to oasis La Huacahina, this is a beautiful oasis located 5km southwest from Ica.
The super landscape surrounded by high sandbanks, palm tree groves and age old Huarango trees (Carob tree), makes a perfect oasis in middle the vast desert.
By the ends of the XIX century Huacachina was practically uninhabited, until the Italian Angela Perotti rediscovered the medical properties of water and sand of the lagoon, especially for the cure of skin and rheumatism illnesses.
Today is an ideal place for relax or for desert adventures. Dune buggies and Sandboarding has become popular on the sand dunes (Huacachina) an ideal area to take to the steep sandy slopes of the desert. 4PM begin the adventure dune buggy and sandboarding tour riding one multiples dunes with nicer views of the vast desert, and at the end accompanied by amazing sunset.
Late afternoon transfer to your select hotel (excluded). Today we suggest and recommend to spend the night at La Huacachina/Ica or return to Paracas.
