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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.

Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.

In port at Pisco (Puerto San Martin), the bucket-list move is Ballestas Islands: Private Luxury Wildlife Boat Tour. Islas ballestas paracas runs it. Below: 5 bucket-list things to do on a Pisco (Puerto San Martin) port day — worth weighing against whatever your ship offers.
Ballestas Islands: Private Luxury Wildlife Boat Tour
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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.

Book it Paracas: Ballestas Islands Guided Boat Tour $17 per person
Run by Islas ballestas paracas · 4.80 from 166 reviews
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Nazca Lines Scenic Overflight: Private Chartered Flight
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Nazca Lines Scenic Overflight: Private Chartered Flight

Board a small private aircraft over the UNESCO-listed Nazca Desert and trace the colossal geoglyphs — the Hummingbird, the Spider, the Astronaut — etched into the earth 2,000 years ago. One of the planet's great unexplained wonders, seen from the only vantage point that reveals them.

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Paracas National Reserve: Private 4×4 Desert & Coast Safari
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Paracas National Reserve: Private 4×4 Desert & Coast Safari

Traverse one of the world's most dramatic coastal deserts by private 4×4 — red-sand dunes plunging into turquoise Pacific coves, fossil-studded cliffs, and panoramic viewpoints inside Peru's only marine national reserve. Raw, cinematic, and almost entirely crowd-free.

Book it Paracas: Paracas National Reserve Half Day Tour $32 per person
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Ica & Huacachina Oasis: Private Dune Buggy & Sandboarding Day
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Ica & Huacachina Oasis: Private Dune Buggy & Sandboarding Day

Speed through the world's highest sand dunes in a custom dune buggy, then surf the slopes of a giant dune above Huacachina — a fairy-tale oasis of emerald water ringed by 100-metre sand mountains. Peru's most exhilarating full-day adventure.

Book it From Paracas: Huacachina Oasis & Dune Buggy Tour $90 per person
Run by Huacachina Sandboard · 5.00 from 295 reviews
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Tambo Colorado Inca Ruins: Private Archaeological Tour
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Tambo Colorado Inca Ruins: Private Archaeological Tour

Explore one of the Inca Empire's best-preserved adobe palace complexes — Tambo Colorado — with a private archaeologist guide. Rarely visited by cruise passengers, this vivid red-and-white ceremonial citadel was a key administrative hub on the Royal Inca Road.

Book it Ballestas & Tambo Colorado from PISCO CRUISESHIP TERMINAL $110 per person
Run by Tambo Colorado · 4.40 from 354 reviews
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Pisco Sour & Wine Route: Private Bodega & Distillery Experience
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Pisco Sour & Wine Route: Private Bodega & Distillery Experience

Trace the origins of Peru's national spirit through private visits to an artisan pisco distillery and a historic Ica Valley winery — tasting copper-pot pisco in the valley where it was born, paired with local antipasti and chicha morada. The most flavour-packed half-day on the coast.

Book it ICA: Pisco and Wine Route with tasting in 03 Wineries $29 per person
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Cruises that call at Pisco

Oceania · Oceania Insignia 36 nights · Dec 19, 2026 · from Miami, Florida from $11,499 pp Plan this whole trip → Oceania · Oceania Insignia 21 nights · Jan 3, 2027 · from Lima, Peru from $7,349 pp Plan this whole trip → Azamara · Azamara Journey 19 nights · Mar 10, 2027 · from San Antonio, Santiago, Chile from $6,179 pp Plan this whole trip →
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