Huacachina, Peru Travel Blogs

Sandboards and dune buggies
Nov 17, 2006 (12 photos)

... small world) and a few others so had a nice time comparing routes and stories! Could have stayed longer than our 1 night as Huacachina is a nice, chilled place but we have to get to Cusco to acclimatise for the Inca trail so it is straight on to Nasca ...

Conquering the land of sand
Apr 14, 2007 (24 photos)

... was an oasis in the desert, complete with pool and lounge chairs, surrounded by mountains of sand.  This is Huacachina, a tiny speck of a town completely surrounded and overshadowed by the massive sand dunes that surround it.  There is a ...

A Desert Oasis
Dec 2, 2008 (31 photos)

... which was a popular tourist destination in the area and even appeared on the back of the Peruvian S/50 banknote.   Huacachina was literally a desert oasis and consisted of a small cluster of houses, hotels and restaurants set around a small lake ...

Desert Fun
Dec 19, 2005 (10 photos)

Our first destination was the desert oasis town of Huacachina. We arrived in the black of night in what appeared to be just a small village in the middle of nowhere. We really couldn't see anything of our surroundings. Everything seemed normal and quite ...

Lima, Huacachina, Nazca, Arequipa
Oct 16, 2006 (16 photos)

... was quite exhilarating, but flying off the top of them in a buggy car was positively terrifying:-) The Nasca Lines After Huacachina, we made a very brief stop at the Nasca Line Museum before taking a luxury coach to Arequipa. The Nasca lines are ...

My Legs Are Burning
Oct 11, 2006 (21 photos)

... we ended up at paid the most commission as every person on our bus was ferried their by the various taxi drivers. Huacachina is a beautiful little town nestled beside a small lagoon, surrounded by massive sand dunes. It's these dunes that draw huge ...

Bad wine and dune boards...feliz año nuevo!
Jan 1, 2006 (7 photos)

... in my shoes..." Think Dido ever went sand boarding? Days after skimming most ungracefully down the magnificent dunes around Huacachina, we´re still shaking sand from our hiking boots and trouser pockets. What an exhiliating experience! We couldn´t have ...

My offering to the sand gods
Oct 21, 2007 (23 photos)

... backpackers eager to try out a rather unique attraction - sandboarding.  It would be an overstatement to call Huacachina a town.  It consists of a couple restaurants and hostels surrounding a very picturesque lagoon.  Mountains of sand ...

Sand in everything!!
Jul 28, 2007 (21 photos)

... compartment underneath the bus - which can be unusual we have heard in South America! From Ica the only way to the small Oasis of Huacachina was by taxi, as soon as we walked off of the bus a local taxi driver was holding out a flyer from the hostel we ...

A day of interesting encounters
Oct 21, 2007 (19 photos)

... head a couple times and saying, 50 dollars. Back with his family, he broke the sad news.  He said the only way people from Peru can have things like that is if they steal them.  He asked me how much it cost for the dune buggy rides (about 12 ...

Into the desert
May 3, 2004 (3 photos)

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CRISIS..... Nearly!
Jul 31, 2008 (6 photos)

... and manged to get all our bags and got to our destination at 8 in the morning... It could have been so much worse! Huacachina is an oasis in the middle of skyscraping dunes and after our ordeal it really was like paradise found. It had a nice feel ...

Sandboarding Stacker
Jun 26, 2004 (5 photos)

If I could be a professional sportsperson, a pro sandboarder would come a very close second to a pro kickboxer. Huacachina turned out to be the second piece of paradise I have come across in my travels so far (the first one being Itacarè in Brasil). ...

mr sandman, bring me your dreams
Dec 20, 2006 (5 photos)

Huacachina, a tiny town, surrounded by high sand dunes as far as the eye can see. There´s an oasis in the centre, some hotels, restuarants and well thats about it. Resourceful locals have set up some sand-dune buggy tours, big meaty trucks drive gringos ...

Desert Oasis and Sandboarding!
Jul 4, 2005 (6 photos)

... on the bus (Dave was on the ball with the help of a local!), we arrived in Ica and caught a taxi straight to Huacachina! It literally is an oasis surrounded by immense sand dunes! We had a quick explore, watched the sunset and settled down for dinner & a ...

Hairy Mummies, Flying-High Shamans and Much More
Feb 12, 2006 (10 photos)

... be seen from the mind´s eye of the flying shaman. One of our last stops before the end of our Peruvian tour was at Huacachina. Huacachina is a desert oasis surrounded by huge sand dunes. As far as the eye can see are sand dunes and I still have no idea ...

Ica - Huacachina
Aug 6, 2004 (6 photos)

... mediodía, nos recogió por la posada, un buggi que nos llevo a las soleadas dunas que se encuentran alrededor de Huacachina. En total fueron 2 hs. a pura adrenalina, recorrimos a 90 km x hs las interminables dunas para terminar haciendo sunbording. Al ...

Sun, sandboarding and swimming...
Mar 31, 2007 (5 photos)

Hacachina is a small and very hot oasis in the middle of the desert surrounded by gigantic dunes. The main attraction is dune buggying and sand boarding - mad rollercoaster rides over the dunes, with periodic sandboarding stops. The ...

sandboarding and nazca lines
Jan 6, 2009 (17 photos)

... come sooner for me!! so tomorrow, lisa and i will be departing to the city of pisco. i will be so so sad to leave huacachina!! to my family and friends: i miss you guys so much already!!... and to helen and steve: i can´t wait till the two of ...

Huacachina
Mar 19, 2009 (3 photos)

Huacachina is a small village surrounding an oasis and set among the world´s largest sand dunes. However, far from providing respite from the bustle of Lima, its a centre for all sorts of adventure activities. Among opther things, I join a sandboarding ...

Bomba Cereza and how to be a Sand Boarding Chick
Oct 23, 2009

Al promised me a day or relaxing, after our crazy night bus and day of fun in Nazca... and it lasted an hour or 2... we had a bit of a lie in, after Al got me a bit tipsy on one drink... buit this drink was something special... a cocktail called Bomba ...

Sandboarding in the oasis
Nov 22, 2006 (4 photos)

... a few people that live near sand dunes strapping on a board and heading down, but the weekend we were there Huacachina was hosting an international sandboarding competition!! There were contestants from Europe, USA and Brasil, all staying at our hostel. ...

THE most beautiful ride
Nov 30, 2008 (13 photos)

10 minutes out of town Jesse got a flat, his first.  But we fixed it in about 45 minutes and were on our way.  And by the way, THIS was the best riding day, maybe ever.  The dirt road was graded an in good shape, and took us over another ...

Desert Oasis
Jul 26, 2008 (1 photos)

... , we spent a night in this dune-encircled town just outside of Ica. Not such a bad place to get stuck, Huacachina apparently used to be a ritzy resort town, but now is more of an overpriced backpacker hangout. The primary activity is sandboarding down ...

Simians
Aug 11, 2007 (13 photos)

Fooling Simians..

Boating and Boarding
Nov 19, 2006 (7 photos)

... of pregnant sea lions and bulls which was called maternity beach. After a seafood lunch back on the mainland, we drove to Huacachina (Wa-ka-chii-na), a small oasis town surrounded by towering sand-dunes. Our sleeping bags, tents and a load of food and ...

Ica - Huacachina
Oct 24, 2008 (13 photos)

... und sogar einem kleinen Pool im Garten der Anlage. Fuer 16.00 Uhr haben wir dann eine Buggyfahrt in die Duenen gebucht (Huacachina ist umgeben von Wueste). Maria und ich sitzen vorne :) Man kommt sich ein bisschen vor, wie in der Achterbahn. Man wird ...

Like sand through the hourglass....
Oct 4, 2009 (7 photos)

... ; Everyone here is constantly eating ice cream, which explains the commonplace spare tire on even the skinny folks.  Huacachina had a great climate and was very relaxing.  Breakfast, as usual was a disappointment, and the economic recommendation ...

Sand buggies and sand boarding
Jan 2, 2008 (4 photos)

This morning we went on guided board trip around the Ballestas Islands not far off the coast just south of Pisco to see the bird life. Whilst birds are not really my thing, these rocky outcrops had a bird concentration like I have never seen before. I ...

Sandboarding and our terrifying buggy ride
Jun 2, 2009

 So we now have reached the coast of Peru, and had heard about this oasis in the dessert (one thing we did not know was that the coast of Peru is a line of sand and massive sand dunes). a few highlights of this bus trip: - the sellers that come on ...