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Huacachina Slideshow
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Huacachina
Travel Blogs from Huacachina, Peru
Carrying drunks, sandboarding & smelly islands
This is a top pick! With the buzz of the Nazca lines fresh in our minds, we drove towards the desert oasis of Huacachina. Official population is just under 200 so our two trucks would increase that number by some 20%. We drive out there, on a road in the middle of the desert ...
CRISIS..... Nearly!
This is a top pick! ... lucky 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 ...
Sandboards and dune buggies
This is a top pick! ... - 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 ...
Rice and chips
This is a top pick! ************************************* September Left the fall-out of Lima behind and headed south down the coast to Puerta Inca. The desert dunes and gorges were hypotic but the bus only stopped at pre-arranged rubbish dumps for a one sole tour of ...
Our Sand Dune Adventure
This is a top pick! ... that features on the back of Peru's S/50 note. Graceful palm trees, bright flowers and some attractive antique buildings make this Peru's bygone glamour resort. Here we relaxed for 4 days in the never ending sun and sand dunes. The main reason travellers ...
Conquering the land of sand
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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 ...
mr sandman, bring me your dreams
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Lima, Huacachina, Nazca, Arequipa
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bad wine and dune boards...feliz año nuevo!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
My Legs Are Burning
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
My offering to the sand gods
This is a top pick! ... 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!!
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
A day of interesting encounters
This is a top pick! ... . He shook his head in disbelief. He said they were very nice sandals and they don´t have sandals like that in Peru. Then he asked me how much I wanted for them. He offered to buy my sandals. I explained that my sandals had ...
Dodgy sandboards and wine tours
... work walking up the dune….think 3 steps forward 2 steps back..but we made it eventually and got a great view over Huacachina, the mountains to the south and the dunes continuing into the north. Kevin had first go at the sandboard, which ...
Sandboarding Stacker
This is a top pick! 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). ...
Desert Oasis and Sandboarding!
This is a top pick! ... 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
... to 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 ...
Ica - Huacachina
... 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. ...
Sandboarding
... brått av bussjåføren som skulle levere en sekk med peanøtter fra bak setet mitt, vi var i Nazca to timer fra Ica(Huacachina). Bussturen tar 13timer på MEGET svingete veier(før man kommer til Nazca/ørken). Vi valgte å reise med Ormeno da disse er ...
An oasis in the desert
After being delayed in Lima we arrived in Ica very late so we jumped straight in a taxi to Huacachina. We asked the taxi driver to take us to Hostal Salvatierra, but he said we should check out Hostal Rocha first and if we did not like it he would take us ...
sandboarding and nazca lines
... 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
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
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 ...
Lagoons and Dunes
... early breakfast today, and I was ready to hit the dunes for some sand boarding. Just about the only thing to do in Huacachina is eat in extortionately priced 4-soles-per-coffee restaurants, surf the internet (again a rip off, at least compared to Huaraz) ...
Sandboarding in the oasis
... 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. ...
Noch mehr Sand und eine Oase
... einsteckte und ''Ewigi Liebe'' laufen liess. War ein ziemlich komisches Gefühl in der Wüste von Peru Mundart Musik zu hören. Huacachina ist ein ziemlich verschlafener Ort, welcher um eine kleine Lagune herumgebaut wurde umgeben von riesigen ...
THE most beautiful ride
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 ...