Thanks to a lucky coincidence, while visiting the Paracas National Reserve, I had the opportunity to admire both the area of ??the peninsula and the Ballestas archipelago, jokingly called the Galapagos for the poor. There are certainly many reasons for this, which in no way detracts from the beauty of this place where the desert collides with the ocean. The enormous geoglyph of El Candelabro made an amazing impression on me, while the Ballestas Islands themselves I remembered as one big noise made by tens of thousands of birds and the stench emanating from their guano.