After two nice sunny days at sea we arrived early in San Martin. During our days at sea we made another discovery. Popcorn! They have it for the outdoor big screen movies, but we took some to have while watching a movie in our room.
The only reason for stopping in San Martin is to allow
passengers with more money than they know what to do with to set off on an
overnight trip to Machu Pichu. They will
rejoin the ship in Callao
tomorrow. The ship provided a shuttle
bus ($8.00 per person each way) to take us to Paracas, a small town about a
25-minute drive away. From what we could
tell, there was very little there, other than the usual plaza de armas and an
old church. So we opted to pass.
San Martin looks like a transfer station set in the desert. There is literally nothing here except a
couple or warehouses and a handful of temporary market stalls selling cheap
souvenirs.
We did actually get off the
ship and walk the length of it along the dock.
There were thousands of birds, some sea lions, and many jellyfish.
We've found a neat spot up on deck 17, way in the back
corner of the ship. It's quiet and a
great place to sit in the sun and read.
Today it got up to 86, but there was a nice breeze. Hey, there are some people in our spot!
As we left the port, we passed a line design on one of the
hillsides nearby. Discovered in 1901,
there are a number of these designs depicting animals and other figures near
the town of Nazca. They were created by a pre-Columbian
people. This one is called the
candelabra.
At 5:00 we sailed
overnight to Callao, Peru.
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