LIMA PARACAS NATIONAL RESERVE BALLESTAS ISLANDS WINEYARDS OF ICA ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUMS AND LA HUACACHINA $886 USD Per Person

Around 6:30AM pick up from the hotel in Lima and transfer to bus station of Cruz Del Sur and then luxury bus transfer from Lima to Paracas (4 hrs). The good paved road to the south offer great views of the desert and coast line, green and large valley as Asia, Mala, Cañete, Chincha and Pisco.

Reception at the bus stop of Paracas and then check in at the hotel and around 1pm begin the private guided tour to visit the national reserve of Paracas (beaches, cathedral rock formation, visitor center, flamingos, and marine fossils). This tour takes around 4 hours including nice walk along the beach and then return to your hotel.

RECOMMENDED HOTELS IN PARACAS

Double Three By Hotel Hilton

Hotel Paracas Libertador

Hotel La Hacienda Bahia Paracas

Hotel Posada Del Emancipador Paracas

At 7AM we will pick you up from your hotel and transfer to the wharf of the Beach the Chaco - Paracas. Speedboat excursion to Ballestas Islands. During navigation the bay is surrounded and the port is appraised San Martín, soon the Mysterious figure of Candelabrum, Ballestas Islands the deposits of Marine Wolves, 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 and half will be our return to the wharf and free time.

At 10AM private transfer from Paracas to Ica (45min) and visit one of the most popular vineyards as known as "bodegas vitivinicolas"; where you will see, learn and taste the Peruvian drink as known as Pisco (grape brandy) and of course you can taste many kind of local wine produced by the farmers using artesian methods, visit the historical center of Ica.

Around 11AM 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.

Continue exploring Ica we go to visit other important and very interesting museum as known as Museo Cabrera. This was founded by Dr. Javier Cabrera Darque in 1966 (Medic and professor of biology); this museum has an oddball collection more than 15.000 carved stones and boulders graphically depicting diverse pre-Columbian themes, from astronomy to surgical techniques and sexual practices.

Around 3PM transfer to oasis La Huacahina, this is a beautiful oasis located 5km southwest from Ica and about 6 minutes drive. This attractive and famous lagoon used for the medicinal properties of its waters. Super landscape surrounded by high sandbanks, palm tree groves and age old Huarango trees (Carob tree).

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. An ideal place for relax or for the desert adventures. Buggies and Sandboarding has become popular on the sand dunes (Huacachina) an ideal area to take to the steep sandy slopes of the desert. The Sandboarding and dune buggy tour includes late afternoon with nicer view of the dunes accompanied by the sunset.

At mentioned time transfer to select hotel in Ica or La Huacachin, of course we recommend to stay at La Huacachina and enjoy the sunset more time the sunset over the lagoon and dunes.

RECOMMENDED HOTELS IN ICA & LA HUACACHINA

PRINCESS HOTEL ICA

HOTEL LAS DUNAS

HOTEL SOL DE ICA

HOTEL MOSSONE - LA HUACACHINA

HOSTERIA SUIZA LA HUACACHINA

Today the tour begins with pick up between 8AM and 10AM from your hotel from Ica or La Huacachina. Transfer to the local airport located 20 minutes away from Ica (Northwest), check in at the waiting lobby; you must need to bring your valid passport to show to the authorities. Without passport you can pass the check door and aboard the plane even if you have a photocopy of your passport. The tour includes watching an informative video of the Nasca civilization and, different theories and sciences investigation. The projection of the informative video takes around 45min and this will be good introduction to the pass of the Nasca culture.

In the aerodrome we will aboard the Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft 208 for 3, 4, 5 or 12 passengers and then you will fly over the natural Oasis La Huacachina, coastal sand dunes on next of Ica valley, the valley of Ocucaje, the valley of Rio Grande, Palpa and Ingenio, the ceremonial center of Cahuachi and finally you will see the enigmatic and mysterious through the aircraft window. All the plane have window upper the wind making more easy to take pictures of the figures and lines.

The flight takes one hour and 20 minutes to see the mysterious and enigmatic figures and lines of the Nasca and Palpa civilization.

Around 2PM will be the transfer to bus stop and public luxury bus transfer to Lima (5hrs). When you arrive to Lima we will provide the transfer only to the hotel located in downtown. In case you need transfer from bus stop to airport you must need to pay additional $28 USD for an automobile or van, this need to be confirmed at booking time.