2007 Peru travel memories and review

Southern Peru and a part of Bolivia

 

Sequence of scheduled flights

Zurich - Milan - New York - Miami - Lima

Arrival in Lima

Today we arrived in Lima a little 'destroyed by air travel (4 flights), but loads of adrenaline and ready for a fantastic journey through Peru' and Bolivia. The climate in Lima is not the best, provided us with a drizzle throughout the day (garu) than for what we understood, and this almost always.
Just drop your luggage for a ride in Town ', visiting the cathedral and the church San Francisco. In the afternoon a visit to the National Museum and then stroll in the pedestrian area and surroundings.

Lima - Barranco - Pachacamac - Pisco

Free morning to Lima we leave around noon. Along the way we stop in the district of Barranco, quaint 'in Lima and away from the big city has to bring us our first visit to Pachacamac archaeological site (guide in Italian).
Then in the evening arrival in the city of Pisco, where the excursion was organized for the Ballestas Islands.

Pisco, Ballestas, Nazca

Alarm 6.30
Excellent excursion to the Ballestas Islands. Begins with the meeting of cormorants and gulls. Then while browsing dolphin then follow boobies, penguins, fur seals and seabirds miriati of atria. The guano-covered islands have their charm.
In Nazca, through conditions atmnosferiche, riusciramo to fly and to admire the lines and geoglyphs. Extraordinary

Nazca - Arequipa

Wake up at 6
Today a 600 km long transfer
We made a stop in Sacaco fossiliferous area and we managed to visit the museum where there is the fossil whale.
The rest of the day traveling and technical stops
The first day we spend at altitude, altitude sickness is not yet made itself felt.