Did this last month and DO plan it out if making it a day trip out of Lima.

The messing arounf at the airport that does the Nazca flights is absurd .. full security and ticketing silliness so that took an hour.

Then flight was another hour and then it flies forever from Paracas to Nazca (why not have airport at Nazca???????????????????????????) over the rocks and near all on pane were sick.

then 5 or 10- mins circling some rather dubious lines and then another lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng flight back tp Paracas where we missed our sked bus.

After much messing around they drove us to Pisco and put us on a local bus to Lima that stops everywhere and was hot and packed.

We needed to get back to Lima for our 10pm UA flight back to Newark and it was a VERY close thing.

So allow a lot of time for that pretty disappointing flight

The fancy Cruz bus is very nice - biz airline type seats, and food and drink and free wifi etc that works for most of the trip.
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