What to see in Pisco

Most people who go to Pisco, do a tour to the Islas Ballestas and the Paracas Peninsula. So did I. And I wish I didn’t because it made me really feel bad to be a human being.

The tour starts at about 8 in the morning, they pick you up at your accommodation at 7am. Then around 8-10 boats leave the port more or less together to go to the protected islands. First stop is a strange tree at the shore of the peninsula, which is a bit similar to the Nasca lines, but they don’t know who built it, probably mariners. Nothing special, why do you show me this? Then you reach the islands and you wish you hadn’t. There are too many boats and getting to close to the shore so they disturb the animals. I have a camera with a bad zoom, but even I was able to make good photos from the animals, that’s how close we were. When I looked to the water I saw the dirt of the ship motors. This is an ecosystem that lives mainly from what is under the water surface, so the focus should be on protecting the sea.

Seal photographed too close.

After a way to short break (until 11am), the vegan restaurant in Paracas opens at 11am, the peninsula tour starts. First you go to a viewpoint in Paracas to see the peninsula from afar. After that you visit some mussel fossils in the middle of the dessert that are some million years old. After that you visit the Cathedral viewpoint, but there is not much left of the rock formation since the earthquake of 2007 destroyed it. After that you visit a red beach and then the driver brings you to a restaurant at the coast of the peninsula (in the Nature Reserve). Here you get 1.5 hours time to eat and stroll around. The seafood they serve comes directly from the sea. You can see the fisher boats in the bay. Remember you are in a Nature Reserve. I was glad I had eaten in haste before (in the very short break), so I could have my bananas now.

After all the tourist spent their money to the restaurants, which destroy the habitat of several animals, that live in the protected Nature Reserve, so that they can continue with the destruction of the protected Nature. They bring you to a Museum that gives you some information about the biosphere of the peninsula. But to say the truth it’s purpose is to justify their fishing and eating habits.

Did you know that the Peruvian sea represents 0.1% of all the worlds oceans, but provides 10% of all the worlds fisheries? What! Are you kidding? And this you call protection?

Final illustration of the museum…

I was feeling really sad of the unreflected behavior of my fellow human beings.

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