Kids’ Activities in Peru in 2026: Family-Friendly Tickets and Tours

Peru's family activities span 3,000 years of accessible heritage and some of South America's most extraordinary natural environments. The Larco Museum in Lima is one of the world's only major archaeological museums with fully accessible, open storage rooms where thousands of pre-Columbian ceramics are shelved in rows — children can walk between these storage galleries and feel the scale of the collection rather than seeing a curated selection. The Ballestas Islands boat tour from Paracas — nicknamed Peru's Galapagos — puts families within metres of sea lion colonies, Humboldt penguins, and pelican flocks on rock formations shaped like candelabra. The Machu Picchu citadel, for children aged 8 and above, produces an archaeological atmosphere that few sites elsewhere in the world replicate. The Huacachina oasis sandboarding experience near Ica, where families ride dune buggies then sandboard down 100-metre dunes, is the country's most popular family adventure activity.