| Route | First Bus | Last Bus | |
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| Marcona to Lima | 20:30 | 21:00 | BOOK NOW |
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| Lima to Marcona | 20:00 | 21:40 | BOOK NOW |
The best moment to visit Marcona is in February, to participate at the Semana Turistica de Marcona, where there are lots of activities to enjoy.
-The climate in Marcona is arid-warm and presents an average temperature that oscillates from 73,4 °F (23 °C) to 64,4 °F (18 °C). At the moments when the season changes there are strong sand winds called "paracas".
Location: Av. Bolognesi 47, close to the Iglesia Evangélica Peruana Marcona
Hours: 7:00 p.m. - 3:00 a.m.
Rate: no available information
Base 3 is a good place to spend a funny moment with friends or sing the songs that you like or the in style songs, while you have some of the drinks that are proposed in the menu.
Location: Andrés Avelino Cáceres s/n, close to the Hotel Davar
Hours: no available information
Rate: no available information
At this place you can enjoy music shows with artists of diverse dancing genres for you to have a great moment with your friends. There are usually events in important dates with special offers that you could be interested in.
Location: Close to the traffic circle located in the street Los Incas
Hours: 5:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. Monday to Friday / 5:00 p.m. - 5:00 a.m. Saturday and Sunday
Rate: no available information
If you look for a place where sharing a karaoke with your friends, have a beer or other drinks, or even dancing the most cheerful songs, the Club de Empleados Karaoke Bar allows you to do it in just one place. Sometimes there are competitions where you can win interesting prices to carry on with the party.
Location: Area of San Pedro, close to the Muelle Pescadores
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Rate: no available information
Delicious plates as chaufa de pescado, chaufa con mariscos, sudado de pescado, parihuela or chicharron are some of the dishes that you will taste, besides having a beautiful view of the sea, the fishermen and the boats.
Location: AV Haya de la Torre G3, San Juan Bautista
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Rate: no available information
Taste the delights that the sea offers in various preparations as ceviche, parihuela, causa de pescado, arroz con mariscos in an atmosphere not so sumptuous, but with a dedicated service.
Location: Av. Andrés Avelino Cáceres s/n
Hours: no available information
Rate: no available information
A diversity of creole and marine food is what you will choose in this restaurant, with dishes as lomo saltado, arroz chaufa, salchipapa so that you don't miss your land.
Location: Boulevard Túpac Amaru B-13 (Ex-Moralitos)
Hours: no available information
Rate: no available information
Location: Downtown of the city
Hours: all day
Price: free entrance
In the square you can see a bridge that connects the floor with one of the top floors of the municipality of the city. This fact allows an interesting view, since it's located in the highest part of it. There is also a fountain with a sculpture that shows the wealth in fauna that has the district in the surrounding area.
Location: in the coast of the city
Hours: all day
Price: free entrance
There are beautiful panoramic views with a desirable weather and calm swell is what you can find at those beaches surrounded of cliffs. You can practice marine sports and admire huge headlands -rocky peaks that stand above the sea- with particular shapes that are similar to people, animals, monsters, and fantasy beings.
Location: at 3.7 mi (6 km) from the city
Hours: all day
Price: free entrance
Awesome beaches in the outskirts of the city with a stronger swell to practice water sports as surf and windsurf; you can also appreciate rocks with showy shapes that wake up the creativity of everyone who looks at them.
Location: on the rural road that follows San Nicolas highway, close to the coast of the Pacific ocean.
Hours: all day
Price: there are specialized tours
One of the most beautiful places to visit in the proximity of the city, that allow to see natural rock landscapes, species as condors, Humboldt penguins and seals. You can as well swim, have a refreshing bath in the Pacific ocean, to visit later the natural national reserve of San Fernando that harbors the majesty of the area's fauna. You can do funny tours in cars in the desert areas close to the area.
Location: beaches of the city
The heat of the area and its advantageous location close to the Pacific ocean make real the chance of practicing sports as jet ski, sport fishing or diving, that are really refreshing. If you are adventurous and look for intense excitement you can try flyboard to do somersaults in the water.
Location: at 40 minutes from the city
Get to know about the beauty of species in the coast and mountain range in its natural habitat, as Humboldt penguins, seals, guanacos or condors that fly in the natural landscapes of the region.
Location: in the coast of the city and surrounding
If you have never tried a quad and accelerate to the maximum, feeling the adrenalin when practicing sandboard or the excitement of going through dunesby car. What are you waiting for? Marcona is a destination where you can enjoy all those activities.
You can taste fresh fish in diverse preparations as ceviches, parihuelas and jaleas of marine species that leave in the area.
Cochayuyo is a marine seaweed rich in proteins and minerals accompanied with fried crunchy squid and canchita (a kind of fried corn), a specialty of the place served in many restaurants.
An exquisite dish of pasta with crustaceans that belong to the family of crabs and a delicious red sauce.
This sea urchin (erizo) is a little animal that sometimes is unseen, but despite its strange appearance has a special flavor. It's usually prepared as a ceviche (fish cooked in lemon) and has a spice flavor.
| Semana Turistica de Marcona | Date: middle February | At this celebration there are diverse tourist attractions that the city offers as dances, gastronomy fairs, tourist rally of motorbikes, the competition of the Tourism Lady of Marcona, practice of water sports, ecologic visits and music presentations that give a festive environment to locals and visitors. |
| Aniversario del Distrito | Date: May | As part of the city's celebration, the Municipality celebrates artist, cultural, sport events which look for promoting the feeling of unit and brotherhood among the settlers. There is also an exhibition of the gastronomy of the place, a presentation of artists and launch of fireworks that reflect in the sea the last days of the celebration. |
| Easter | Date: April | At this date you can feel the fervor of the devoted people in the air, the celebrations include masses, altars, change of flowers and processions of Cristo Crucificado and Nuestra Virgen Dolorosa. You will see travelers from other towns of the country this date. |