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SERVICES INCLUDED:
 

- Transfers from/to hotel
- Accommodation based on TWIN in the selected hotel category
- Excursions as noted in the itinerary
- Regular bus Lima - Paracas - Lima (unescorted)
- Boat excursion to Ballestas Islands
- Entrance fees to the sites mentioned in the itinerary
- Meals as noted (B: breakfast, L: lunch, D: dinner)
   
 
NOT INCLUDED:
 

- Accommodation in Lima
- Flight over the Nasca Lines from Pisco
- Airport taxes for domestic flights and international flights (approx. USD 6 for domestic flight departures and approx. USD 31 for international flight departures)
- Tips
   
 

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EXTENSION PARACAS AND BALLESTAS

Get relaxed in the peaceful and sunny Paracas Bay, now offering new and comfortable hotels. Learn more about the rich sea wildlife of Ballestas Islands. Take the chance to learn not only the Nasca Lines but other less known drawings left by the Paracas culture in modern planes departing from Pisco airport (15 min drive from Paracas).
 
 
Itinerary
 
DAY 1 LIMA – PARACAS (approx. 250 km – approx. 3 ½ hours)
At proper time you will be transferred to the station to take the regular bus to Paracas. The comfortable bus is equipped with A/C, reclining seats and toilet/washroom. On arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Afternoon at leisure.

Optional: flight over the Nasca-Lines from Pisco. You will be transferred to the airport in Pisco (15 min drive from your hotel). During the 1 ½ hour flight aboard a modern Cessna Gran Caravan plane with capacity for 12 passengers you can photograph the most famous images: the condor, the hummingbird, and many more. Best viewed from the air, these huge geometric patterns, animal figures and hundreds of perfectly straight lines were etched on the desert sands by Nasca people centuries ago. Additionally you will fly over the Palpa Lines, the recently discovered drawings near Ocucaje left by the Paracas culture and the archaeological complex built by the Nasca Culture in Cahuachi.
 
DAY 2 PARACAS – LIMA (B)
Morning excursion to the Ballestas Islands. Aboard a comfortable speedboat we head out toward the ocean and the Ballestas. Here we enjoy close-up observations of dozens of sea lions as they swim near the boat or sunbathe themselves on the shore; watch hundreds of various marine bird species including the Guanay corrmorant, Peruvian pelicans and with some luck even one of the famous Humboldt penguins (there is no chance to disembark). On the return, you enjoy an excellent view of the Candelabro, a figure sketched into the side of the cliff overlooking the sea that is similar to those found on the Nasca plains Time at leisure until departure (2:30 pm or 05:30 pm). At proper time you will be transferred to the station to take the regular bus back to Lima. On arrival transfer to your hotel in Lima.
 
 
 
Price per person in USD sharing TWIN
Prices valid through December 24th 2010
 
 Hotels
 Private Services
 SIC*  Single Suppl.
 Tourist    225  21
 First    253  49
 Deluxe    283  85
 Deluxe superior    316  132
* min. 2 persons
 
 
 
Suppl. for optional flight over Nasca Lines from Pisco (1 ½ hour): USD 170
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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