Whale Watching
Los Organos, Piura, Perú

During August, September and October Pacifico Adventures takes you to see the amazing humpback whales.
Humpbacks arrive to the northern coast of Peru from Antarctic waters for breeding and calving during the reproductive season. In our excursions it is possible to watch this magnificent cetacean perform spectacular breaching, swimming, diving in groups, and you may even have the opportunity to witness the early games of newly born calves under the vigilant eye of their enormous mothers.  

This tour encompasses a broad navigation from Los Organos to Cabo Blanco in which we have achieved a 80% success rate sighting humpback whales in previous seasons. 

This tour also serves as a research platform for our staff of marine biologists who are investigating several whale ecological aspects such as behavioral activities, distribution and population. The tourist can also be a part of our research by contributing any photos of the ventral side of the fluke of the whale to our photo identification catalog that may have been taken during the trip.

In addition, it is possible to see the fascinating marine life of the zone, like the bottle nose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), the common dolphin (Delphinus capensis, D. delphis), sea lions (Otaria flavescens), sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), sea birds such as the blue footed booby (Sula nebouxi) and the magnificent frigatebird (Fregata magnificens), navigating in the convergence zone between the cold Humboldt ecosystem and the warm equatorial ecosystem.  Watch the tour video here.

Departure hour and site:
7:30am at Los Organos fisherman pier.

Duration: approximately 3. 5 hours.

Price: 100 soles per person.
              50 soles for children under 10 years.

Includes: transportation from your hostel (round trip), bottled water,
life jacket, and tour guide.

Boat and crew:
We use a 24 feet long boat with twin outboard motors. It is equipped
with shade, comfortable seating area and capacity for up to 12 passengers.
Our captain has 30 years of navigation experience and is trained in cetacean observation. The tour guide is specialized in the local fauna.

 Recommendations:

• Bring a windbreaker, towel, sunscreen, sunglasses, hat and a bag for protecting your camera.
• We don’t recommend this tour for children under 5 years or for the elderly

Participate and support this important research project of humpback whales in the northern coast of Peru.
We already have a catalog with identified whales and a scientific article published with the early results produced within this project.