Opinion – in general the trip to Little Galapagos was a nice way to start the day but we didn’t really see much in the way of wildlife but the cliff engravings and the guide talks on the ancient history made it worth while.
Our adventures in Paracas ended with a dawn call for the trip out to Little Galapagos. The night before hadn’t gone on too well, the local Paracas chapter of the moped Hells Angels had been drag racing outside our hotel window, often chased my kids in a Tuk Tuk.
We met our fellow adventurers in reception and made our way over to the quay and boarded a high speed boat to head out to the remote islands. With a title like Little Galapagos, real name Isla de Sangayan we were looking forward to seeing iguanas and weird looking birds.
We ended up sat beside Helen and Glen from Liverpool, like many people we met, their original trip was booked for 2019 but it was postponed by Covid, and then when that cleared there was an uprising in Peru and military action which made the country too dangerous to visit, so it isn’t just us that is unlucky with this stuff. Helen and Glen appear later in this story as part of a great night later, along with John from Raynes Park, who seemed to be everywhere!
The speed boat ploughed across the sea for at least 90 minutes and our guide introduced us to some incredible historical civilisations that were reputed to live here.
One of the problems with history in Central and South American is that none of the civilisations developed a method of writing, it highlighted how lucky European and Middle Eastern civilisations were that the Ancient Egyptians and other civilisation had a written language.
There were cliff carvings of people and creatures that provided intriguing insights into a talented civilisation, there is even evidence from skeletons that they had knowledge and understanding of the human brain were able to undertake medical procedures on the brain, but more about ancient civilisations when we get to the Nazca lines later.
We toured the remote islands and saw plenty of birds and a few colonies of mating seals, but no exciting giant iguanas or sea turtles, so all round it was a bit of a disappointment but it was a very pleasant boat ride to pre-empt the next stage of our tour, the drive to Huacachina
If Little Galapagos was a little bit disappointing, we were about to find out that Huacachina was most definitely not, but in the way we had a stop off at another remote, desolate but beautiful park for a coastal view.
Back on to the bus for the next few hours to Ica, the big city just before we turned off for Huacachina. As the 3 day trip had a packed itinerary, we hadn’t really got across the detail of each stop, other than to know that we were about to visit an oasis in this desolate landscape.
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