Nazca, Arequipa & the South - Discover Peru: Experience the Best of Peru - page 212

7am-6pm) , which has a twee video devoted to local ecology. A better bet: the new Museo
Julio C Tello Offline map next door, which was opened in 2012, and has a good display of
ancient artifacts. The bay in front of the complex is the best spot to see Chilean flamingos,
and there's a walkway down to a mirador Offline map (lookout), where these can best be
spotted (June through August).
A few hundred meters behind the visitor complex are the 5000-year-old remains of the
Paracas Necropolis Offline map , a prominent pre-Inca culture known for its lavish tex-
tiles. A stash of more than 400 funerary bundles was found here, each wrapped in many
layers of colorful woven shrouds for which the Paracas culture is famous.
Beyond this, 6km away on the southern tip of the peninsula, lies the miniscule (and
largely forgettable) fishing outpost of Lagunillas . From here, the road continues on a few
more kilometers to Punta Arquillo Offline map , where a clifftop lookout has grand views
of the ocean and a sea-lion colony. Other seashore life around the reserve includes flotillas
of jellyfish, some of which reach 70cm in diameter, with trailing stinging tentacles of 1m.
Swimmers beware!