Bus to Paracas

This morning we were picked up by a shuttle that took us to the bus station, where we boarding a bus to Paracas. At the bus station we were kind of lost. We did find our way to where they took our bags, but our bags were overweight, the limit is 20kg per person. After we made a futile effort to move enough stuff into our backpacks and generally looked helpless and confused, the agent waived the charge just to get us away from him. There were a few stops on this bus ride and after the1st stop we discovered we were in someone seats, who knew they were assigned? It does show the seat in very small print on the bus tickets. We definitely looked like rookie travelers today. After long (about 4 hours) bus ride a guy met us for the short ride from the station to our hotel-the Paracas Sunset. It was bright and sunny when we got there so we decided to go out by the pool. But when we got out there, the sun was now behind the clouds so we stayed out there in the overcast for a while then decided to get something to eat by the beach. We read up on a couple of restaurants and decided to go to El Galeon because they were supposed to have good scallops. As it turns out the way they make scallions here is kind of disgusting so that didn’t go too well. They serve the scallops on the half shell and you end up tasting their nasty parts, definitely not what we were expecting. The calamari and Spanish rice were good but the shrimp that came with the rice was not. I tried a Pisco and ginger ale drink, which wasn’t great either. It pretty much tasted like flat ginger ale. To complete the experience, we were “waited on“ by two girls who were more interested in their phones than actually paying attention to us. We had to wave our arms and say “Cuenta” so they would give us a check and we could leave. Very disappointing. We then tried to find ice cream, but there was a strange lack of ice cream places in the area, considering it was very much a beachfront/touristy area. The one that we did find wasn’t very good. The cream was just not creamy, so after we each had one sample we passed on the place. We bought a big jug of water and then headed back to the room. Another early night. The weird thing is the sun goes down around six here right now, because it’s almost their winter solstice, so it feels much later than it actually is.