Although all the territory of Peru can be easily called one big natural preserve, there is still a Peruvian top list of national parks and Paracas is considered to be the most famous among them. Occupying the territory of more than 330,000 hectors, the huge national park was founded in the vicinity of the city Pisco in 1975.

Since then, more than a hundred archeological monuments belonging to different ancient civilizations have been detected there, but the most valuable and unusual find of the international paleontology expedition was fossils of a huge penguin, whose age is more than 36 million years. Later on, the scientists named the extinct penguin of 1,5 meters tall The Water King.

However, this land boasts not only rare excavations, the objective for creating a natural preserve was a desire to save and protect its actual living habitants. Today more than 200 bird kinds live there, among which you can find marvelous pink flamingoes, pelicans, cormorants, condors, and same old penguins, just a little shorter and younger. Besides, on the territory of the Paracas National Park you can see the biggest colony of sea lions in the world, and in nearshore waters rich in plankton there are thousands of fish kinds, shellfish, and crustaceans, turtles and dolphins.

Sea fishing is particularly popular among tourists, after which you can cook a barbecue dinner over the fire using your own rich catch. You can also set off on a sea yacht trip and watch small pods of hunchbacked whales passing by. The whales appear in these waters most frequently at the beginning of autumn.

Pristine nature, picturesque sceneries, steep cliffs, and orange rocks disappearing in deep waters of the Pacific oceans deserve your particular attention. Fantastic red beaches and gently sloping ways down to the water attract lovers of beach holidays, and sandy dunes and immense deserts attract admirers of quadricycle racing and sandboarding, which is gaining its popularity.