On the way from Huacachina to Lima we had a side trip to the Ballestas Islands, the so-called poor man’s Galapagos Islands.While waiting for the boat at Baracas I walked around and the place was nothing more than restaurants and shops selling poor tourist things, something like Blackpool. It took about an hour to reach the islands in a power boat which carried about 40 people and while in the islands no-one could leave the boat or swim, definitely not like the Galapagos Islands. I don’t really know if it was worth going to the islands, I could have done without doing so.
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| The remains of the guano industry |
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| Seals |
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I was rather surprised to see on the journey to Lima that although there was a lot of sandy soil there were huge soft fruit farms and large green areas due to the irrigation from somewhere. There were also huge subdivisions where it looked that expensive houses were in the process of being built, all behind huge walls, many topped with an electric fence. The driving in Lima was so atrocious that we lost over an hour getting through the traffic. In parts some of the cars were driven on the pavement, all to gain an inch. There are supposed to be rules of the road as in other countries but as far as I could see the only rule was to stick any part of the vehicle in a gap, stopping anything, even vehicles on a main highway. And the police only looked on! There is a ‘metro’ in Lima but not underground. It consists of large hinged buses on dedicated roads within the city, alright until a car gets in he way and blocks everything up. Driving to the Hotel Kamana it was noticeable how many private houses and businesses again had what looked to be excessive security fencing and electric fences as well.
Views on the way to Lima
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