Another early morning, this time to the coastal town of Paracas where I was to visit the Ballestas Islands, also know as the poor man's Galapagos. It was an eerie sensation to drive past endless sand dunes blanketed in thick fog, especially after having brilliant sunshine almost all the way through Bolivia and Peru.
On the three hour boat ride where I saw tens of thousands of birds (mostly pelicans and boobys), several sea lions, penguins and dolphins. The clouds didn't clear the whole time but the seas were calm and I enjoyed the tour around the islands, where huge amounts of guano are currently being mined.
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