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Paracas Museums Tour: Juan Navarro & Julio C. Tello

The Paracas Candelabra geoglyph
The Paracas Candelabra geoglyph. Photo: Alex Zanuccoli / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

A day tour of the Juan Navarro Museum with its elongated-skull collection and the Julio C. Tello site museum, built on a Paracas-culture village in the Paracas Reserve, guided by Brien Foerster.

Operator
Hidden Inca Tours
Led by
Brien Foerster
Dates
Daily / flexible
Duration
1 day
Price
from $125 per person (operator site 2026-10-16)
Language
EN
Status
Open

Sites visited

Paracas · Paracas History Museum · Julio C. Tello Museum

What’s included

Guiding; museum visits (see operator for details)

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Site guides for this tour

Paracas: Elongated Skulls & Candelabra
Desert peninsula south of Lima, home of the Paracas culture (about 800 BCE to 100 CE): elaborate textiles, the 180 m Candelabra geoglyph on a sea-facing hillside, and cemeteries famous for strongly elongated skulls, many on display in the private Juan Navarro (Paracas History) Museum.

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