Pisco (Puerto San Martin), Peru Cruises

Pisco (Puerto San Martin), Peru Cruise Port

• A tourist can relax at the As De Oros restaurant, which offers the opportunity to eat local food. A person can enjoy a variety of local dishes such as octopus served with spicy mashed potatoes or grilled prawns in tartar sauce served with fried yucca.
   
• For the more adventurous, the area offers Reserva Nacional de Paracas, which is an expansive desert reserve. It has children friendly exhibitions on ecology, and a bay that is covered by Chilean flamingoes and jellyfish that wash ashore and form mandala-like patterns on the beach.
   
• The reserve also offers tourists the opportunity to examine old ornaments and medical techniques and instruments that were used by prehistoric inhabitants of the area. A key relic is the trepanned skulls, which illustrate an old medical technique, where a piece of skull was removed to ease brain pressure.
   
• Visitors are also offered a memorable excursion to the Isla Ballestas, which starts with a boat tour to the location. The boat journey offers a person a view of a three-pronged Candelabra geoglyph and herds of noisy sea lions that lounge on the rocks.