Peru Trip Highlights

Paracas National Reserve – we went on a boat tour to Bellistas Islands. While on the boat, I saw different sized pieces of rock scattered all around the sea. They had strange shapes. I was dazzled by the shining colors and crevasses. I was trying to figure out how they formed. I had hypothesized that once there were glaciers near the poles and then they slowly moved towards the equator. In the afternoon we went on a guided tour and I learned that these islands had come from 60 degrees South of the equator and I was extremely happy that my hypothesis was correct. I also saw a red sand beach on the tour. I found it quite beautiful and interesting that there were so many red rocks in the place that a beach entirely made up of eroded red sediments existed.

Rock slides- when we went to the Inca ruins in Sacsayhuman, near Cusco, I thought that we only came to see the ruins. However, in the corner, there were huge slides made out of natural rock. Both my brother and I jumped with glee upon the sight. Then we climbed up the mini mountain and slid down the steep slides. WEEE! It was very fun and not scary at all to me. Of course, I had been on several slides in my life, but the fact that this was natural and the surprise element is what made it to the top ten.

Sightseeing in Andean Mountain Range – all throughout the trip, we drove tin and out of the mountains. I would spend several hours just admiring their beauty. Each angle portrayed a unique view of the mountains and the same mountains never looked the same – the sides had different vegetation and were carved with different amounts of erosion.