Categoría: South Coast

The beautiful bay of San Fernando is located about 70 kms away of Nasca, at the shore of the Pacific Ocean, within the district of Marcona. This wonderful reserve shelters a great variety of sea birds and animals. Among the animals stand out the Humboldt penguins, sea otters and hundreds of sea lions that can…

PERU TRAVEL invites you to be part of this new and unique adventure in the Nazca Valley. Travel across the Nazca desert aboard a dune buggy. Get the full experience of the beautiful Usaka dunes and build memories that last a lifetime. In addition to the ride on the dunes, we offer you sand boards…

The Vicuña National Park of Pampas Galeras is located about 90 kilometres from the city of Nasca (598 m.a.s.l), following a steep/winding road that leads high into the Andes till an elevation of 4200 m.a.s.l. This area is home of two American camels, the Vicuñas and Guanacos, which can be seen running freely through the…

Our sand boarding tour starts off with a nice trek through the Andean Slopes, passing wonderful landscapes, untill we reach the summit of Cerro Blanco. Once at the top we will practice sandboarding on the many whimsical dune formations that overlook the Nazca Valley. After we had been jumping from one dune to another, we…

5000 years ago the Palpa Valley was inhabited by early societies which used the flat surfaces of volcanic rocks to portray their everyday lives as well as their animals, birds, ancient priests and a number of geometrical designs. Over 300 petroglyphs have been registered. The Petroglyphs of Chichictara are perhaps one of the earliest expressions…

2000 years ago, in pre-Inka times, the inhabitants of Nazca developed a system of underground aqueducts to irrigate dry lands that lacked surface water. Thus, they were able to combat the ever-growing dessert. The system is unique in Peru and perhaps in the whole world. In spite of the harshness of the desert, in the…

The Ceremonial city of Cahuachi is located about 28 kilometres away from the modern city of Nazca, at the lower section of the Nazca Valley, virtually in the middle of the desert. Since 1982 the Italian Archaeologist Giuseppe Orefeci has begun a tireless work uncovering the ancient city of the Nazca people. The archaeological complex…

For many years Chauchilla cemetery was looted by treasure hunters who destroyed it and took away the treasures that had been kept with the mummies in their tombs for centuries. Grave robbers just left behind the corpses, which can be seen today all over the ground. In addition to skulls and bones, visitors also can…

According to recent archaeological studies the first drawings were made in the Valleys of Palpa and Rio Grande. It is said that 3000 years ago our ancestors used the flat surface of the mountains and the slopes of the hills to draw huge geometric figures and human representations. Archaeologist today believe that the figures were…

In the Nazca region, scattered over 500 square kilometers of an arid plateau between the Nazca River and Ingenio River, exist huge representations of geometric patterns, animals, humans figures and thousands of perfectly straight lines that go on for kilometers. The images on the ground are so huge that the only way to fully observe…