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Next stop, the beach... to chill out for about a week...
Well, that's what I thought.
But you see, not well enough prepared.
As I looked on the map of Peru beforehand, I found some coastaltowns south of Lima.
I thought it would have been nice to chill out a bit and enjoy some sand and sea, especially as it was winter back home at the time.
But it nothing like that. As we drove down on the Pacific Highway, which is parallel to the coastal line, we found ourselves in a desert.
How wrong was I. I must say it was quite charming though, especially while listening to some favourite tunes on the walkman and studying a little Spanish phrasebook.
Sometimes we crossed some little villages, well not even villages I suppose, but full of fruit stands along the road.
Amazing I though, how does all that fruit got here in this remote desert and who the f**k was there to buy it ?...
The end of our trip in the coach, brought us to Pisco.
The next big town south of Lima.
The town was centered around Plaza des Armes (ofcourse).
That part was not too bad, but the futher you got from there, the more the town was 'unfinished' :
roads where no more cealed, houses were only half built or there wasone really nice one with its neighbour looking nearly demolished,
and there was always this dinstinctive smell around.
We basically chilled out around la Plaza;
played some guitar, tried my first little words of Spanish and booked ourselves a trip to the Islas Ballestas, a.k.a
The Galapagos Islands of Peru.
We set off the next day.
It was a nice little boad trip where we crossed the first mysterious symbol drawn in the sand (like the Nazca lines), the Candelabra.
The Island was full of birds (stinky birdshit) and sealions.
 After getting back to shore and some food, we set off for the 2nd tour of the day 'Reserva Nacional de Paracas'.
We visited a cultural informative sort of museum to learn about its wildlife and history, got of to the beach and cliffs and even had ourselves a dive in a nearby sort of lake at the very small village of Lagunillas.
Got to mention as well that this was where I first exchanged words with this amazing young lady (later becoming my lovely girlfriend).
Two nice little tours and my first touch with remote desert ...
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