Subject: Post: <p>In the morning we took our trip to Ballesta Islands, which are a protected area full of birds and sea lions. The speedboat ride to the islands took half an hour from Paracas, and seems like the speedboat drivers were having fun racing each other to the islands. Visiting the islands is only allowed for short time in the morning, so there are multiple tourist boats going there at the same time.</p><p>From the boat we spotted millions of seabirds, thousands of sea lions and some more rare animals like a dozen of penguins. The islands were totally covered by bird shit, which is collected every eight years for fertilization purposes, and you can imagine the smell of rotten fish..</p><p>After returning from the islands we departed towards Lima, driving again a couple of hundred kilometers through the desert. I had planned to stop at an airfield near Lima to ask the local flight school if we could fly with them, but clouds were way too low for flying, actually at the ground level, so no use..</p><p>>Both of the girls now had fever, which developed during the morning and the boat trip. Kim is now also eating the same antibiotics as me for the same reason, so seems like I wasn't the only one being affected by some bad food somewhere.</p><p>The girls wanted to visit a surf school at Lima, but obviously neither of them was in any kind of fit for surfing at the moment. So, we just visited the beach for a while and watched the huge waves and surfers. There was also a lot of paragliders in the air, which looked like great fun. Too bad we did not have time to try it now.</p><p>Lima traffic was exactly as horrible as it was earlier. Nobody seems to have either brains, eyes or manners and I'm really wondering our car is still in one piece. Actually the traffic was so totally messed up that it was just fun, over the point of being annoying or scary. Although the horn got used quite a lot..</p><p>Now we are at the airport, ready to start our long long way back home. First an Iberia longhaul flight to Madrid, then via Berlin to Helsinki with Air Berlin. It took a moment to get the check-in agent to accept our request to check the bags to only Madrid, "we need to change clothes and take shower etc during the layover". I guess she understood our real purpose to skip the second flight to Brussels and that it would be much more hassle to get the bags out of the aircraft when we don't show up for the second flight and asked her supervisor to do the bag check-in to Madrid only.</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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