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Lima : Paracas & Huacachina- Day to Islas Ballestas & Sandboard

Lima, Peru
From 14 hours to 15 hours
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Date
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May 18, 2025
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Time
5:00 am
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Full Day Paracas & Huacachina
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Ages: 2-99 years old
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What You Will Do

Don't let time constraints in Lima stop you from visiting Huacachina and Paracas. See the desert oasis and natural sights on a full-day excursion, ideal for travelers short on time. In one day you will be able to embark on a tour of the Ballestas Islands, often compared to the Galapagos Islands, to see colonies of sea lions and seals & explore the Huacachina desert in a dune buggy and go sandboarding.

What's Included?

  • Bilingual guide EN / SP
  • Dune buggy
  • 2-hour boat ride to Isla Ballestas
  • Sandboarding
  • No hidden fees

What's Not Included?

  • Pick up & Drop Off hotel
  • Lunch
  • Local taxes (20 soles)

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Itinerary

Meeting Point

Near Larcomar , in Front of the Marriot hotel. Our bus will be there at the pickup time. In exceptional situation, the meeting point may vary to avoid traffic or closing road (In Saga Falabella de Miraflores), we will let you know the day before

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Paracas

30 minutes

Arrive in Paracas around 9:45 a.m., then you will go with your guide to the port to board the boat for the tour to Isla Ballestas.

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Additional Information

This activity is operated by IZI PERU
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • The total duration includes travel time.
  • It sometimes happens that the sea is too rough to visit the Ballestas Islands by boat. If a weather report announcing a storm, we may cancel the boat tour around the Ballestas Islands for security reasons. In this case a financial reimbursement will be refunded to you ($10 per person) or another activity will be proposed
  • Baby under 1 year old can come, but cannot participate in activities of the day

Guide Options

  • Guide - English
  • Guide - Spanish

Customer Reviews

Lies and Lack of support
(viator)
2023-11-28
The trip itself was enjoyable. Being able to tour new places is always something I look forward to doing. We began with a pick up on a nice bus. Once we arrived to Ica we took a boat tour to explore and see animals in their natural habitats (which I thought was great!). Upon return, we received samples of cookies and then headed to a restaurant (food was great) followed by a pisco tasting (amazing!). No time to shop. Overall it felt rushed but we made the best of it. We got to Huacachina for a buggy ride. The area was beautiful, outside of all of the trash everywhere. We were assigned a buggy driver to give us a tour of the sand dunes and bring us to take pictures and sand board. I enjoyed the ride since the driver drove incredibly fast!

The issue was my hat flew off as we arrived to sand-board. I let the driver know that I would run to grab it since it was down the hill, within eyesight. He told me that instead he would drive me to pick it up on the way back. While we began to situate ourselves to take pictures he put a sand board in my hands and told me to go. I was confused because we didn’t get to take pictures yet so I put the board down and took pictures with half of the group that stayed. Once we took the board down the hill the driver began telling people to get in the buggy. My partner confirmed with the driver, in Spanish that we were going to get my hat. He reassured us we will. The driver took off very fast before my partner had time to put her seatbelt on. She was terrified so I helped her up it on. We did not head towards my hat and instead went directly back to the entrance area. I confronted the driver and he put his hands up and said “no hat”.

I went to my guide from IZI Peru and explained my frustration. She was sitting across from the driver’s boss and he told me the driver checked the buggy and there was no hat. From then on my guide did not support me with communicating with this man. I tried with all of the Spanish I knew, hand gestures and pictures. My partner came over and spoke to him in Spanish. The guy gave us about 5 different stories about how the driver said he didn’t drive us, how the driver went to search for my hat, how someone else took my hat, that they didn’t have the buggy we were driven in (even though I showed him pictures and videos of the buggy. Essentially he was saying anything to not be helpful in hopes that we would leave. They did nothing, my guide did nothing to assist and the driver told me not to retrieve my hat with a false promise that he would take me to get it. It’s frustrating because I would have gotten it myself if he didn’t tell me not to get it. Overall this was a disappointing end to what was a good trip.
Excellent experience!
(tripadvisor)
2023-11-20
Beautiful trip with amazing stops, a wonderful guide and an amazing driver Angelito.
Really worth it!
No Spanish no problem
(tripadvisor)
2023-11-09
It was overall an exciting and fun-packed day trip. We are English speaking, so the guides and customer service went the extra mile to ensure we were well informed and engaged throughout the trip. Definitely recommended for anyone including English speakers.
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