Paracas Ica Huacachina Full-Day Tour with Sunset Option
From €51 per person
See availability →Paracas Ica Huacachina full-day tour from Lima by tourist bus: Ballestas Islands by boat, a pisco and wine tasting, then dune buggy and sandboarding at the oasis.
This Paracas Ica Huacachina full-day tour is built around the choice you make at booking: a shorter buggy ride, or a longer one that ends at sunset. Either way you travel by round-trip tourist bus, with a bilingual guide in English and Spanish and pickup at fixed boarding points or, with other options, at your hotel.
At Paracas you board a boat at the El Chaco pier for the trip to the Ballestas Islands, lifejacket provided. Sea lions, penguins and guano birds appear along the way, together with the Paracas Candelabra. Then comes a winery near Ica, where you can have lunch with traditional dishes if you wish and taste more than five wines, piscos and liqueur creams. Pisco and wine tastings are for travellers over 18.
The afternoon belongs to Huacachina, the Oasis of America. The buggy races over the Ica dunes, and at the top you try sandboarding. The guide adds stories and legends of the lagoon, and there is free time to wander around it. The sunset ride is the longer of the two choices, so the return to Lima is later in the night.
Food, the buggy and sandboard, and local taxes are paid separately. Children under 6 and people with high blood pressure should not join.