Hostal San Isidro, Pisco

We have spent the night in Pisco. It is quite an ugly, dusty small town. Not much to do here. The only thing is to go to the cemetery and pay a visit to the grave of a suspected vampire called Sarah Ellen. She must get a lot of gringo visitors because in the cemetery the locals kept asking us whether we want to see her grave and gave us directions. She must be also popular among the locals because her grave was the one with the most flowers. There were also many small thank you notes hanging on her grave, as if she had been a miraculous healer or something. Nevertheless she cannot be so miraculous, since opposite to her prediction, she failed to resurrect in 1993, 100 years after her death.

The other activity in Pisco is to book a trip to the Ballestas Islands which is also called the Galapagos of the poor man. There are large guano producing bird colonies there and many sea lions. On the way one is also shown a big cactus like drawing on a rock, similar to the Nacza lines. After this boat trip we will go to Nacza and try to book a flight over the real Nacza lines.