Peru Island Tour: Explore Marine Wildlife

Explore Paracas Islands and Reserve: Marvel at rock formations, spot Humboldt penguins, sea lions, and marine birds. Enjoy personalized yacht and land tours.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Atracadero Artesanal “El Chaco” - Arrival at Paracas City (tourist pier)
  • Islas Ballestas - A two-hour excursion to the Ballestas Islands, where visitors can observe marine birds, sea lions, Humboldt penguins, and Inka terns. On the way to the islands, there is an opportunity to view the mysterious line resembling the Nazca lines, known as the…
What's Included
  • Pickup and dropoff directly from cruiser terminal
  • English speaking guide
  • All entrance fees
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • Bottled water
  • Personal insurance in case of injuries
  • Harbor tax
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Personal expenses
Additional Information

This round-trip tour of Peru’s most famous islands lets you enjoy magnificent rocks formations sculpted by nature and is home of Humboldt penguins, south Americans sea lions and a multitude of marine birds.
All yacht tours include a trained, certified, registered yatchsman and crewman/guide onboard. Our yacht services are insured and registered with all…

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Brian_s
Feb 23, 2026
Great Tour! Confusing pick up instructions. - Do not visit Pisco without taking this tour. It is the reason for visiting this city. The one thing I would say is that the pickup instructions are very confusing. I thought that pickup would be at the terminal but we had to take a 30 minute bus ride to Pisco. I guess this is normal. Our tour guide was fantastic and the wild life spectacular.
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Plan09
Feb 20, 2026
Amazing day, so much diversity in one area. - Lucio and staff made the tour special. He was the boat captain, guiding us through the island with expertise, our land guide, our museum guide! The scenery was incredible. Ballestas is a special place. So glad we got to see Paracas and Ballestas.
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Norman_p
Dec 3, 2025
Excellent trip - Pretty good organisation and communication. Booked as day excursion for port day while Sapphire Princess berthed. Princess do everything they can to make it hard to boook independent trips, saying their own are exceptional value. Thus was less than half their price, pickup alongside ship, excellent comfortable boat trip giving loads of time for nature spotting good guide, nothing too much trouble. Saw loads of other stuff on desert/museum part of trip. Highly recommdnded
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26benx
Dec 2, 2025
Great tour - the best tour of our trips in the past two years! Persons of the tour guide agency met with us when we got off the cruise ship. Air conditioning bus carry us during the tour. Guide operator Lucio is a wonderful guy to work with, very good English, good arrangement, perfect results. Boat captain for the reserve island is a super young man, positioned boat very well for tourists . On our way back , we did see whales.. they even stayed for a while for us to get whale photos. Reserve desert park visit was great too. In the end, we were sent back to cruise ship right where we got off. In summary, great!
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Passport06561316423
Dec 2, 2025
Do it for the great nature encounter! - This tour of the islands and the Paracas Park was a great value and excellent up close nature encounter. The contrast between all the birds and sea lions with the dry desert mountains and coast was spectacular. The guide gave a good cultural and History lecture as well as identifying the various wildlife with great opportunities to photograph.
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Luis_f
Dec 2, 2025
Cruise passengers tour for Paracas and Ballestas Islands - Great boat tour of the Ballestas Islands, Paraca Town and Paraca National Reserve with all tickets included and pick up and drop off at the cruise port itself
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Michelle_m
Sep 23, 2025
Shore excursion option - Pick up was at the port and communication was good. We had a wonderful day exploring both the Paracus island and the desert area. During the boat ride we had plenty of time and the captain was very patient and rotated the boat so everyone can see and take photos of the many animals to be seen. The time spent in the desert was also very interesting and informative. The only thing I would suggest is for more free time after the boat ride to do some souvenir shopping as the line up at the bathrooms was very long and only had 5 mins. Other than that would recommend doing.
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Meander803785
Sep 12, 2025
Thoughtful and helpful tour - We had an amazing trip in Paracas! I highly recommend choosing a tour here — the team was very thoughtful, caring, and went above and beyond to help us in many ways.
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Wanderer43709928044
Apr 29, 2025
Fantastic Tour - We booked the Ballestas Islands and Paracas National Reserve Tour combination because we only had one full day in Paracas and it was a good decision. The tour was well organised and the transition between both parts was very smooth. We were very lucky to have Lucio as a guide. He was super knowledgeable in virtually everything related to the area (and beyond). Be it wildlife, archaeology, geology, … . It was a very educational and memorable experience. Thank you, Lucio!
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Tabatha_h
Feb 21, 2026
Great Boat Tour and Guide - No Pick Up from Cruise Ship - The boat tour around Ballestas Islands was really good, very private with only a few of us on the boat. We had much longer viewing times than the other boats of the seals, penguins and birds. Not a lot to see in Paracus National Reserve but the views were beautiful. Tour guide gave us a good briefing in the museum. We were not picked up from the Cruise ship despite that being the pickup point. They sent us a late message telling us to meet at the Marina Touristica, so we had to take the Cruise Shuttle which takes almost half an hour. They were not able to directly drop our group back at the cruise ship either, but instead took us back to the Marina and asked another bus driver to take us back to our ship, who I believe was from another tour. There was also no bottle of water offered as per the included agreement. It was a good tour all in all despite the pick up and drop off inconvenience.
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From $95
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).