A visit to the Ballestas Islands, where rocky formations are home to colonies of sea lions and thousands of resident and migratory sea birds, including pelicans, boobies, cormorants, terns and gulls. In the summer, condors are also frequent visitors and flamingoes occasionally pause at the bay. From the sea, you will observe El Candelabro, which may be related to the Nazca Lines.

In 1925 the Peruvian archeologist J. C. Tello discovered burial sites of the Paracas culture, which dated from 1300 BC to 200 AD. The Paracas are considered to have created the finest textiles known in the pre-Columbian period. The Museum J.C.Tello in the Peninsula De Paracas and the Museum Regional in Ica have excellent displays of Paracas artifacts.