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Travel Blogs from Ica - Huacachina, Peru
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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 ...
An Oasis in the middle of the desert
... the quickest i have got out of a place to date! After we went to a little oasis in the middle of the desert...Huacachina...such an amazing place...and so small..it was so nice being somewhere where it was really hot! The place was incredible..surrounded ...
Lima to Ica
... town which is close to enormous sand dunes. We stayed for two nights here and in the day visited the nearby oasis of Huacachina (4 soles in a taxi - around 60p). Huacachina is in the middle of the desert and surrounded by hugh sand dunes in all ...
Ski-Holot
there is 1 thing to do in Ica - rent a bugy to go 'sand boarding'. it's really fun, until you fall (but usually that´s fun too). the scary part was when Shlomit got really speedy, and eventually turned over. a couple of times. yeah, i know that ...
Dunes, buggies and sandboarding
... , there isnt much happening in Nasca so we got a bus out straight after the flight and headed to Ica. Got to Ica 2 hours later and took a taxi to Huacachina which is an oasis resort in the desert. Amazing place - this is a must see place if in Peru! ...
Sand in every available orifice
... and short evening bus took us down to Ica last night. Once there we hot-footed it straight out to the Oasis village of Huacachina. What with having arrived at night and us travelling through the desert, we couldn't really get a feel for the area, but ...
I love hiking in socks and sandals....
... the van from Yungay (a town completely buried in the 1970 quake) up towards the face of Huascaran the highest mountain in Peru at 6768m. We drove into the Llanganuco valley passing the turquoise glacial waters of the Llanganuco ...
Huacachina/Nasca
... , ma ci torneremo il giorno dopo. Non vale la pena sprecare energie per descriverla, plaza de armas, due chiese, un gran casino. Huacachina. Da Ica andiamo subito a Huacachina, una oasi nel deserto. Che deserto e' davvero, con dune altissime, palme, e ...
A very strange party and sandboarding
... up the road to a second bodega before heading back to Ica. That evening Bryan and I took a cab to Huacachina, about 10 minutes away from Ica, to stay the night in a hostel there in preparation for a dune buggy ride and sand-boarding the following ...
Huacachina
Huacachina, *****, Friday 27th-28th April, 2007...no globalization..Not even a bank in this place An absolutely fabulous little resort town whose landscape is dominated by giant sand dunes and whose restaurants and hotels overlook a murky lagoon. ...
Sol y pileta en Huacachina, luego a Lima otra vez
... , así que me embadurné con el protector solar. Luego del mediodía armamos todo y dejamos la habitación, salimos para el centro de Ica para hacer algunas compras, pasear y luego a la tarde salir para Lima en BUS. EL bus fue PeruBUS, pagamos $23 por el ...
Bird poo and sand
Hello All!! Today we are writing to you from a small town outside Ica that goes by the funky name of Huacachina (pronounced waka-cheena). It a sort of oasis town...it surrounds a lagoon that is the only bit of water in kilometres of sand ...
Our first oasis in this vast desert
... meet up at luch time in a petrol station and head out together through yet more desert. After nearly 1500km it is starting to get boring. At Ica we stop and discuss plans, young G´s bike is leaking a lot of oil again so we opt to stop at the oasis at ...
More Rush Sliding Face First than Sandboarding
Pictures only at this time...I`ve been traveling non-stop and haven`t had much time to ...
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