Paracas - Enjoying Beach, Wildlife and Desert

After having taken the luxurious bus 'Cruz del Sur' from Lima for roughly four hours, I arrived at the beach town Paracas. It is relatively small and quite touristy but at the beach - which is unfortunately a little dirty since people leave their rubbish behind - you find tourists as well as locals enjoying the fresh sea. Apparently, the two currents from the North and South (the one from the south is called Humbold current) meet in front of Peru and they are the reason for the relatively cold Pacific here of only 15 degrees in summer and 12 in wintertimes. In Paracas I did tour to the famous Ballestas Islands, which are also called Galapagos for poor people. However, I believed them to be already really amazing with a wide variety of wildlife. We saw penguins, sea lions, pelicans,  hundrets of cormorants, starfish, seagulls, anemones, inka terns, mussels and turkey vultures... it was sooooo impressive. The little sea sickness that I had felt along the way there, was suddently gone. All those animals there - just incredible. On the way back we passed the Paracas Candelabra, which has been drawn by someone some time ago - there is no clarity about it. It is 180m high, 70 wide and goes 50cm in the ground. Due to the fact, that it never ever rains in this region, the sand formation still exists nowadays. In the afternoon I visited the Paracas National Reserve. It is a great desert of 335,000 ha and it was simply incredible to see the ocean and desert touch each other. In the sand, which used to be covered by water, there were many fossils. The dried seahorse was by far the coolest. Tomorrow I am starting to travel further inland to Ica, a place surrounded by massive sand dunes. All really really good so far!