{"id":10171,"date":"2019-10-02T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/?p=10171"},"modified":"2021-01-06T17:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T00:10:45","slug":"discover-the-ballestas-islands-of-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2019\/10\/02\/discover-the-ballestas-islands-of-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover The Ballestas Islands of Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191019191630\/https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/?s=Peru&amp;cat=Nazca\/Paracas\/Ballestas\">Ballestas Islands<\/a> are located right off the coast of Paracas, a vibrant wildlife sanctuary filled with a stunning scenery and a variety of wildlife species. Discover the islands and see the stunning rock formations and landscapes that surround them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peru-ballestas-islands.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"363\" data-attachment-id=\"10172\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2019\/10\/02\/discover-the-ballestas-islands-of-peru\/peru-ballestas-islands\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peru-ballestas-islands.png?fit=768%2C435&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"768,435\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"peru-ballestas-islands\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peru-ballestas-islands.png?fit=640%2C363&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peru-ballestas-islands.png?resize=640%2C363\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peru-ballestas-islands.png?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peru-ballestas-islands.png?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sail around the rock formations and marvel at the colorful birds that inhabit the islands. Get up-close and personal with the Humboldt penguins and sea lions as well as many other endangered birds and animals that live on the islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about visiting the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191019191630\/https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/?s=Peru&amp;cat=Nazca\/Paracas\/Ballestas\">Ballestas Islands<\/a>, please contact us or check out some of the following itineraries:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191019191630\/https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/destination\/trip\/?trip=1-Day-Paracas-and-Ballestas-Day-Tour\">1-Day Paracas and Ballestas Day Tour<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Combine the Ballestas with the Nazca Lines:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191019191630\/https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/destination\/trip\/?trip=3-Day-Nazca-Lines%2C-Ballestas-Islands-and-Paracas-Reserve\">3-Day Nazca Lines, Ballestas Islands and Paracas Reserve<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191019191630im_\/https%3A\/\/i1.wp.com\/cdn.cuponidad.pe\/images\/Deals\/paracashuellas2d.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cdn.cuponidad.pe\/images\/Deals\/paracashuellas2d.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Your friendly Peru expert,<br>Gretchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ballestas Islands are located right off the coast of Paracas, a vibrant wildlife sanctuary filled with a stunning scenery and a variety of wildlife species. Discover the islands and see the stunning rock formations and landscapes that surround them. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/2019\/10\/02\/discover-the-ballestas-islands-of-peru\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,400],"tags":[1033,310,242,338],"class_list":["post-10171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peru","category-south-america","tag-bellestas-islands","tag-lima","tag-peru","tag-south-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peru-ballestas-islands.png?fit=768%2C435&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xxsg-2E3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10173,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10171\/revisions\/10173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adventureswithinreach.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}