Ballestas Islands and Huacachina Tour with Ica Winery
From €67 per person
See availability →A Ballestas Islands and Huacachina tour from Paracas: a speedboat past sea lions and penguins, a winery tasting in Ica, then dune buggy and sandboarding at the oasis.
This Ballestas Islands and Huacachina tour from Paracas joins the sea and the desert in about ten hours. The morning belongs to the water: a lifejacket, a speedboat and roughly an hour and a half among the islands, with sea lions on the rocks, Humboldt penguins, guano birds overhead and the Candelabra geoglyph on the shore.
After some free time you board the transfer to Ica, around an hour away, with a bilingual English and Spanish guide. The rest of the day follows this order:
- a guided visit to an artisanal winery in Ica, ending with a pisco and wine tasting
- free time to have lunch
- the Huacachina Oasis, with palms around its water and enormous dunes behind
- one hour of dune buggy riding and sandboarding
The day ends at Huacachina. From there you can be dropped at the bus station of Ica or at a central hotel there, go back to Paracas, or simply stay at the oasis, and you can leave your luggage at the office in Huacachina.
The tour is run as a group service. The admission tickets for the reserve and for Huacachina are bought separately. It is not suitable for people with respiratory issues, recent surgery or babies under 1.