Los Aventuras de Edmundo y Linda

We left by bus (4 hours) to Paracas, the landscape was beautiful.  Peru is surrounded by desert with huge sand dunes.  On the way into town we passed a whole bunch of fish meal processing plants… man did it smell disgusting.  We had dinner on the beach, which was under construction.  We were the only people in the restaurant and they were so happy they gave us 2 free drinks.     

We went to Isla Ballestas, nicknamed the ¨Poor Man´s Galapagos.¨  Check out the HUGE jelly fish that washed up on the beach.  On the way to the islands, the indigenous people of Paracas dug out a chandelier like shape into the side of the sand dune that can be seen from 22km away, its was really cool.  On the islands there were tons of birds, penguins, sea lions and pelicans.  The area smelled like bird poo though and we goot pooed on.  An interesting fact about the islands is that every 7 years people scrape off the bird poo (which is often more than a few meters thick) and sell it as fertilizer.   We met a really cool French couple (Benoit and Mode) and traveled with them to the next town (Huacachina).

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