We started our Peruvian journey heading south from Lima. We boarded our Peru Hop bus
It took us to Hacienda San Jose where we got to tour the secret slave tunnel
Before finally making our way to the coastal town of Paracas
The next day started with a meal at Hotel Residential Los Frayles and after a good
breakfast and coffee we headed out on the tour with prearranged with Peru Hop
A visit to Islas Ballestas
Ain't gonna drown today
We're gonna be saved for today Live for another day
We're good to go
Smell of gasoline - that is a little bit of gas smell but we'll survive
when we get out of the wind a bit and the way we go
I thought that the Candelabra was done by locals
kind of a joke but apparently they believe it's 300 years B.C.
A lot older than we thought
sea lion on the rock
I've never seen this many birds in my life it's exciting there's a lot of
seals no sea lions who I have to really press up my skills of sea lions and
seals but there's a lot of sea lions a lot of birds they're just like flocks of
them all in the straight line yeah I just see like swim so birds coming into
the land into six honey and just everything behind us all these hills
that I'm pointing to that's all bird and a lot of you know
bird crap and there's actually industry on be of
guano he said and then they filled all these ports and a platform that kind of
collects all the birds do
yes right here back on land now we have to get to the
hotel as quickly as possible and get ready for a tour of the National Reserve
so I think we have about twenty minutes that's a lot of fun it's gonna be nicer
at the reserve because this morning is quite cloudy if it looks like it's about
to clear up pretty nice it's gonna be much warmer we are currently in the
Paracas National Reserve and it is basically a huge area of desert and this
is all colorful desert and used to be underwater
like 300 million years ago and it dried out and then as a result in the current
days there are a lot of fossils our first stop right here is the
Cathedral
it is the cathedral right there used to look like this but then it was destroyed
in 2007 and it turned just like that that's crazy
and this is still part of the cathedral stop I would just love to fly the drone
here but it is way too windy to do that and even if I did I doubt they'd let me
because it's a national park but it is so beautiful here and I'd love to have
something just going across the plains amazing amazing amazing it was free with
Peru hub we found out from our tour guide that piranhas penis sand of width
or wind of sand its reign of Saint rain of sand so now it's skidding about
midday sand is heating up and because the sand
is heating up the air is rising the temperature of the water is cooler so it
comes in and fills up the space so as the sand heats up the air rises the wind
comes in and we can get winds up to 50 kilometres an hour which is about 35
miles an hour and it's not bad now it's really cool and obviously start warming
up
some salt red beach Roja something Russ Roja Maya our third and final stop for
today is the red beach as you can imagine the name comes from the red sand
is part of the speech but one thing we have to wear off like right behind
Michael right there just blocks of people start coming in so
we're lucky me actually
these beads some really kind of ourselves but it's not gonna be long we
just got back from doing our two main things here
the useless by Jess's and then Monica's national reserve and it was a lot of fun
to the great part about this for me with Peru hop is that you can do whatever you
want you can do some of the stuff that they have planned for you or you can buy
a tour these were both recommended by them and the eastland by justice was
fifty so less per person which is fifteen US dollar yeah when you hop on
the bus you could directly order it from them or you could go to the website
prior to your visit and then you can do it by color the national reserve was a
ton of fun too that was really cool it's really beautiful it's like a lot of
different sand colors and in this contrast with the ocean just like a
desert it's not like super hot you think of desert just like hot and this is not
so we are here in the main strip of Caracas and this is basically a row of
restaurants and shop on the left side and then on the right side there's an
ocean view every time you pass a restaurant that people always try to
sell you stuff in including to invite you to the restaurant and then we're
just gonna film it right now turn next thing is to your I know
and no gracias
you know this restaurant they everybody just have a menu that people kind of try
to sell you stuff the combo comes with is the sour so it's gonna be our first
pisco sour in Peru just to you sort of tastes like a mercury b-cycle margarita
yeah we were walking along the strip here in Caracas looking for a place that
had some vegetarian food we couldn't find any but we found this friendly guy
named Luis and he told us that they make most of their dishes that are fish base
they can make them into vegetarian dishes so he ordered a pesto spaghetti
and a mushroom ceviche which was really really good one thing that we also found
to our surprise was they have a bunch of craft beer the gold nail and a couple of
IPAs even though I'm an IPA lover the gold nail is the one I'd recommend but I
highly recommend coming here because the guys are friendly the food is really
good and for lunch for two of us and admittedly we split a lunch was 25 so
let's which is about six dollars the place is called carumba it's right on
the beach you have a great view here and I have it recommended
we're leaving our hotel now and this is how far we are from the beach
testing 1 2 3 blah blah blah that's scene 103 103 1 2 3 just did the two big
things to caracas which is the east lab by you by yale nuts oh sorry sorry sorry
now we have to look it up we're back after these messages from our
sponsor we're gonna go with the seviche mushroom ceviche and i'm not sure where
it is where is it down here Oh on this side oh yeah we're gonna go the most
elusive EJ's on this side