General San Martin, Peru

Today we are docked at General San Martin (Pisco) Peru. They offered a shuttle into a small fishing village nearby but after seeing the first 4 shuttle buses fill immediately and still a waiting line we decided that we didn't need to go in. So we wandered around the pier a bit and visited with our little seal friend and watched some pelicans on a sandbar nearby. It was actually a lovely walk, there is enough cloud cover and with the temps only in the 70's it is about perfect. This stop is actually just sort of a filler stop - it allows time for the people that went to Machu Picchu from Callao time for the trip; they rejoin the ship here. We were really ready to do that trip this year until we realized it was much too short a time to see much of anything so I'll look at a regular land trip for it. This is the third time we've been on a cruise that offered the big overland trip and each time we've passed it by either due to cost or that it was just too short a time period.

 

Last night was our third Pinnacle dinner for our Ensemble passengers and probably the most fun group. The dinner was lively from the time I made the welcoming toast until the last few people left. We will have our first cocktail party in a few days – then there is quite a bit of time until our next affair which is the private shore excursion in Sydney.