we're going to the poor man's galapagos there's just like naked dogs
there are a few penguins up here among the thousands of other birds
we had a very close call
hundreds of them over here good morning from paracas peru right now we are about
to get on a boat and we are going to the poor man's galapagos which is isla
estas and we're going to see a bunch of wildlife and spend a couple hours on this boat
so on this island supposedly we're gonna see things like penguins we're gonna see
the blue footed boobie and there's gonna be some sea lions because of all this wildlife
and especially this unique wildlife that you don't really see other places that's
why this is called poor man's galapagos i don't think we're gonna actually be able to get off
of the boat and go onto the island because they preserve it and they don't allow anyone on it so
our views are just going to be from the boat which will still be cool yeah which is probably better
that we're not going to be touching the wildlife making friends with it but yeah supposedly they
they keep this place pretty well taken care of and well preserved and so the wildlife just does what
it does and there isn't much human interaction or anything to mess it up so today we're going
to be doing the island boat tour along with the paracas national reserve and those together
were 13 for each person and then we're gonna have to pay fees when we actually get to the park
okay so now we're waiting for the boat there are just hundreds if not thousands of people
waiting for boats here so we ended up paying 13 for both of the tours and then you have to pay
about six dollars for the entrance fees to vote so in all about 19 for this school tour not too bad
so most of these tours they leave early in the morning they say that they're going to
leave at 8 but now it's about 8 30 and we're finally almost getting on
with the galapagos islands topping the bucket lists of many travelers to south america
it's not surprising that there are a number of smaller attractions in the region
lane claimed being the budget-friendly
alternative these rocky formations part of the paracas national reserve provide
a home for penguins sea lions and a ton of bird life such as the blue footed boobie
so this is the candelabra it's a prehistoric geoglyph and it's on the northern face of
the peninsula and it's about 600 feet tall the candelabra is large enough to be seen from 12
miles away at sea but the reason for its existence remains a mystery much like the famous nazca lines
which aren't too far from here no one knows if you made this big chocolate it's called the
candelabra or the trident it has 128 meters high 75 minutes wide and approximately 50 centimeters
so right now we're on a boat tour it's a two hour day trip and we're hoping that in that
amount of time we'll be able to spot a bunch of wildlife and you can see the huge quantitations
right
same turn the other way there's a couple right there too it's the only one standing up yeah
it's hard to tell them apart but there are a few penguins up here among the
thousands of other birds here try to make them out right here three
penguins
this is all birds all of this black stuff up here it's just thousands of these birds
to catch the fish we can be three minutes under
the water these peruvian boobies we have also with the blue feet
again it's pretty hard to see over here but there are a bunch of sea lion babies babies over here
what the people are doing here is harvesting guano which is a fancy word for bird poop
it's actually harvested from here and used as fertilizer
all right so this here is called maternity beach because this is where all the sea
lions go and where they have most of their babies there's hundreds of them
over here on this beach see if you can see this
i don't know if my camera is really catching this but do you hear all the sounds coming from that
so sea lions make a pretty distinct sound but they're babies it's like little screams
this look and i landed some bird poop
right on my life jacket and i did get some on my arm and i wiped it on the
seat
all right now we're headed back and we're going to go to the national park after this
pretty bump we didn't see too many penguins i hope that we caught a few on camera for
you we saw maybe four or five among thousands of other birds and you couldn't really see them but
look at all these birds here and they're all just diving straight into the water and getting fish
look at there are just hundreds of them right next to the boat if you're here at the right time you
might see some whales you also might see some dolphins you might see a couple of penguins but
but it's pretty much a quick little boat ride and you're to see things from afar so you don't
really get that close to anything overall it's a good experience for the money uh decent value
okay so we just made it back and next we're going to
the national reserve so we're going to take a bus and hopefully see some wildlife on this
so peru is known for having the ugliest dog in the world and we just spotted it they're hairless
they're hairless but they have a little bit of wiry hair on the top of their head so they kind of
just look like an old man they kind of look like a hyena yeah yeah there's just like naked dogs
but i think they're really popular here too much happened in one day
we couldn't fit it all in one video here's a sneak peek of what happened
next
make sure to watch part two of our parakas tour here
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