Paracas Full-Day Tour: Ballestas Islands and Reserve
From €27 per person
See availability →A Paracas full-day tour that joins a morning boat ride to the Ballestas Islands with a desert drive through the National Reserve, its red beach and sea cliffs.
If you have only one day, a Paracas full-day tour lets you see both sides of the place: the sea first, then the desert. The day runs about six hours and starts on a group boat that cruises past the Paracas Candelabra, a huge geoglyph on the hillside that you can see from the water, before reaching the Ballestas Islands. Sea lions bask on the rocks, Humboldt penguins shuffle about, seabirds fill the air and, with luck, dolphins swim beside the boat.
Back on land you get a break to stroll the boardwalk, have a coffee or a juice and look at the artisans' souvenirs. Then a group vehicle takes you into the Paracas National Reserve, where the scenery changes every few kilometres: sea cliffs, red sand and marine fossils in the ground.
- Paracas Cathedral, a rock formation shaped by the ocean
- The Supay and Santa Maria viewpoints
- Playa Roja, where red sand meets turquoise water
- La Mina Beach, a calm bay for a swim
- Lagunillas, for a lunch by the sea
Both guided parts are bilingual in English and Spanish. Entrance tickets for the islands and the reserve, life jackets and group transport are included; meals are not. The tour is not suited to wheelchair users, pregnant women, people prone to motion sickness or babies under one year.