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Ballestas Islands: Private Luxury Wildlife Boat Tour

Glide through the Pacific on a private speedboat to the 'Peruvian Galápagos' — the Ballestas Islands — where sea lions, Humboldt penguins, and tens of thousands of seabirds crowd dramatic rock arches. A bucket-list encounter with Peru's wildest coast.

What to expect

Your bilingual naturalist guide meets you dockside at San Martín Port and escorts you aboard a private vessel. En route, you pass the enormous Candelabro geoglyph etched into a cliffside hillside — mysterious, Nazca-adjacent, and rarely lingered over on group tours. At the islands, you circle sea-lion rookeries, penguin colonies, and sky-filling flocks of Peruvian boobies and cormorants. The 2-hour on-water experience is unhurried, with the guide contextualising the extraordinary biodiversity of the Humboldt Current ecosystem.

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Emotion Tour Peru
USD 49 per adult (private/luxury departure from San Martín Port)
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Good to know

Tour departs at 08:30 from San Martín Port — no shuttle needed. The full excursion runs 3–4 hours, well within a typical all-aboard window. Pre-book directly; private departures fill quickly on port days. Bring a light layer — the Pacific breeze is cool even in summer.

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10 nights · calls at Pisco (Puerto San Martin)
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19 nights · calls at Pisco (Puerto San Martin)
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