Been a while Pt. 2

Last week we went for a trip down to a place called Paracas and then on to Ica . Paracas is a "famous" holiday spot for the Peru people . This area which is next to a town called Pisco (Pisco is also the name of a drink here). This area was badly hit by the earthquake a few years ago . Now they have rebuilt most of the place and there is a new Hilton Hotel + the former Paracas and Hacienda hotels have been rebuilt . I went to look at the Hilton and it`s nice but nowhere as nice as the Paracas hotel this is a fantastic hotel and if the Hilton is 5* this is 9*. So if ever in the area stay there . We went for a boat trip to an Island full of birds, sealions and Penguins , I don`t think I have ever seen so many birds there must have been millions . This brings me back to the reason of the Asia Name as ref. my first post . According to a female caddy the Asia name comes from ketchua (the old peru language ) and refers to bad smell , it so happen that just outside the coast here there is a couple of Island`s where there was lots of birds , and birds shit .This shit or "Guana" as they call it is very smelly hence the name bad smell. This Guana is also a very good fertiliser and is picked up and exported , it was even used to produce explosives as it contains Nitrogen and fosfor . In Paracas they pick up this shit every 7 years and they say the island is covered in 60 cm of birdshit . Judging by the smell this must be a horrific job .
The next day we left for Ica , Santiago (ref 1st posting) has a wineyard there and he invited us for lunch (see picture) . This is a huge place some 700 acres of grapes etc . He produces 6 millions bottles of Wine/Pisco a year , as you can imagen the lunch had a lot of wine , but also good food, and Pisco . It`s about an hour thirty minutes to Ica from Paracas , in the evening we went for a drink to the Paracas hotel which was just 100 meters from the house we stayed in . The house was rented by some friend of us . We left early Friday as we had lunch party (Party party ). This party is THE party of the Lima high society . There are ex prime ministers , defence secretary etc etc and also this year I got to meet an ex UN GENERAL SECRETARY , his name was Perez and some more , he must have been close to 80 year old.
The next day Adriana where woken up by the friends from Paracas they had been alerted of a Tsunami because of the earthquake in Chile , and later in the day the water stood 30 cm up in the house as it is right on the beach . Up here in Asia we did not notice anything but luckily our house is also 30 meter up the hill.
Untill next time ,, Olav