PIRWA TOURS IN ICA
- Overflight Nazca lines
- Chauchillas cemetery
- Aqueduct cantayoc Nazca
- Huacachina lagoon
- Usaca oasis tour
- Paracas national reserve
- Ballestas island
PIRWA HOSTELS IN ICA
Pirwa travel Peru
Phone: +51 084 244315
E-mail: pirwatravel@gmail.com
Cusco - Peru
HUACACHINA LAGOON
During this tour you´ll receive an introduction to the Paracas, Nazca, and Ica cultures as you marvel at what they left behind (from their celebrated polychrome ceramics and complex textiles to mummies and trophy heads). You´ll learn about the process of making world-famous Peruvian Pisco while touring a vineyard and wine cellar and sampling the wares in a wine-tasting. To top it all off, we´ll lunch in a real desert oasis perfect for taking stunning photos before indulging the rush of sandboarding the desert´s steepest slopes.
Tour itinerary
You´ll be picked up at your hotel at the agreed time to begin a tour of the city of Ica. We´ll begin with a visit to a vineyard and wine cellar where the famous Pisco is produced. Here we´ll learn about the entire process of Pisco production as we tour the cellar. Following the tour there´ll be a wine-tasting.
Our next stop will be the Regional Museum of Ica for an introduction to the Paracas, Nazca, and Ica cultures insofar as we´ve been able to decipher them through their elaborate multicolored textiles and ceramics and their human remains such as trophy heads, wigs, and mummies.
After a six minute drive southwest of Ica, we´ll have our lunch in that most prized of geographic locations- the desert oasis. A perfect photo-opportunity, the attractive waters of Huacachina Lagoon are bordered by Royal Palms, Date Palms and Huarango Trees. Huacachina is famous for the medicinal properties of its water and sand. After lunch we´ll take advantage of the enormous sand dunes´ steep slopes nestling the lagoon for some high-intensity fun- sandboarding.
Our Service includes
- Licensed Professional guide
- Pick-up at hotel in Ica
- Private Round-Trip Transport
Our Service do not include
- Entrance to the Regional Museum
- Discretionary Spending (extras and tips)
- Hotel in Ica or in Huacachina
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