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| Humboldt penguins on one of the Ballestas islands |
Our next stop after Lima was the small coastal town of Paracas, where we spent just long enough to get a boat out to the Ballestas islands, known for its sea lions and huge population of birds, and do a land tour of the peninsula, a national park with interesting geological features.
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| Red sand in the Paracas National Reserve |
From Paracas we headed to Nazca and next morning prepared ourselves with anti-sickness tabs for our half hour flight over the Nazca lines in a tiny 4 seater plane.
The flight over the desert was amazing (photos really don't do it justice), and the pills did their job, albeit leaving us extremely sleepy for several hours afterwards.
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| The hands and the tree patterns as seen from the air |
That evening we finished up with a great planetarium show that explained some of the many theories behind the lines before hopping on another overnight bus.
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