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Lima
Reception and transfer from Jorge Chavez
airport in the City of Lima to the hotel.
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Lima - Nazca (mysterius lines) and Ica
Breakfast at the hotel. From Lima we will
head for another attractive place that will
excite us: the mysterious Nazca lines. To
go there we have to travel by bus to the
city of Ica, where we will accommodate in
a hotel. Then we will head for the airfield
to take a light airplane to the city of
Nazca, where we will fly over the mysterious
Nazca lines.
Once back, we will set out for Ica to
visit its Plaza de Armas, Señor
de Luren Church, the Regional Museum –where
we can see the high-quality Peruvian ceramics
and fabrics– and end our tour in
the beautiful Huacachina Lagoon, where
we will enjoy a spectacular Ica landscape
with plenty of attractive palm trees,
dunes and be captivated with its interesting
legends.
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Paracas
Breakfast at the hotel. We will leave Ica
and head for Puerto de Paracas, where we
will embark on comfortable speedboats towards
the Ballestas Islands. In the trip to the
Ballestas Islands we will have the opportunity
to appreciative the famous Candelabro considered
the starting point of the Nazca lines.
These are rocky formations where there
is plenty of sea animals including many
colonies of guano birds such as the guanay,
piquero and Inca tern among others, as
well as Peruvian Penguins (also called
Humbolt penguins), which are endangered
species, and a lot of seals (fur seals
and southern sea lions) among other species
from this beautiful place.
After sailing for a few hours, we will
get back to Puerto de Paracas. Then we
will stroll around the National Reserve
of Paracas and visit the Cathedral, which
is another natural rocky formation eroded
by the wind and sea where countless birds
live in. We will spend the night at the
Paracas Resort Hotel, where we will enjoy
its facilities.
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Lima
Breakfast at the hotel. In the morning,
we will get back to the Peruvian capital
city: Lima. In the afternoon, we will get
to know the Colonial Lima, reminiscent of
the viceroyalty times. We will start our
tour visiting Plaza Mayor, which is located
exactly where Francisco Pizarro founded
the city of Lima in 1535.
We will also get to know its Cathedral,
the Government Palace (the change of guard
is an attractive ceremony that takes place
every day at 11:45am). We cannot miss
San Francisco Convent with its beautiful
cloister, its office and catacombs, which
served as cemetery during the Colonial
period, and the pyramid-shape Huaca Huallamarca
from the pre-Inca times, entirely built
on sun-dried brick.
After going around the historic center,
we will head for the modern neighborhoods
such as San Isidro and Miraflores with
their charming beaches and the busy commercial
and night life. We will end our tour in
the romantic Love Park, which has a magnificent
sculpture that represents the Andean Lovers
with view to the Pacific Ocean which we
cannot miss.
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Lima
Breakfast at the hotel. We will be transferred
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