Ica, Peru Travel Blogs

Driving with Jesus
Aug 5, 2006 (1 photos)

... our cameras, as her anguish became our photo opportunity. The next stop that afternoon was the oasis at Huachachina... located near Ica. Wow! Iīve never seen sand dunes that high in my life. They were like mini-mountains. And situated right smack dab ...

Andelay, Ariba, Ica!
Nov 9, 2007 (22 photos)

... , soon into UNICEFīs lofty undertaking, local UNICEF representatives realized that they neither had the manpower nor adequate organization in Peru for 400 plus class rooms to go up smoothly. And thus a marriage of conveniance was born. Hands On has lots of ...

Penguins, Desert Lines and Sand Dunes
Mar 22, 2005 (18 photos)

... in the back and one long-legged German in the front. We spent about 2 and a half to 3 hours seeing a piece of Peru well off the beaten track. Most of the time we were basically on two-tracks passing through remote agricultural villages and spent much of ...

Hunting Sharks in the Desert
Apr 16, 2004 (21 photos)

The Desert Man so he spoke of places where sharks and whales lay buried there into a silent world we went and learned about a life long spent desert vast and hidden teeth winds revealed them at your feet sun of fire and curving land burning ...

Bad wine and dune boards...feliz aņo nuevo!
Jan 2, 2006 (7 photos)

... as the port of export). Cab driver Jose Antonio took us, Christelle (French) and Louise (British) first to Tacama, Peruīs biggest winery - a beautiful property with quaint farm buildings (originally a monastery). We were given a very thorough tour of ...

Another World
Jan 27, 2004

... all the way to dead dog dinner. Spent the last couple of days back in the heat, near the coast of Peru, in the desert. Ica, it could've been the Middle East. Huge steep dunes, surrounding an oasis town. Beach buggying and sand-boarding at breakneck ...

Huacachina og sandboarding
May 16, 2007 (4 photos)

Tog til en lille oase midt mellem sandbanker. Her ku man tage paa Buggy tur og sandboarde ned af sandbjergene. buggyerne = koeretoejerne til opad sand koerte staerkt opad og lavede sving og flyvehop som var man i tivoli. Det kildede rigtigt i ...

conquering the sand
Jul 12, 2008

After numerous buses we finally made it from Mancora to Lima dn finally to Ica the sandboarders dream - its a little oasis in teh desert really - the town is surrounded by giant sand dunes where u can spend the day getting sand caught in every imaninable ...

Finding an Oasis
Mar 12, 2006

... Lima to Ica...just 5 hours this time and a day ride for a change, so an opportunity to see some of the landscape. Peru is the third largest country in South America and has three distinct environments, almost all of the coast is desert which then rises up ...

Rucksack all gone!
Apr 8, 2008

... we boarded a bus to Lima as I didnīt have anything but the clothes I was wearing! So there is some man in Peru with some interesting backpacker gear like a universal sink plug, headtorch and multitudes of girls clothing! Luckily I still had my passport and ...

putting me on the map
Feb 19, 2006

i realized that i didn't show you where ica was on the map. There should be a dot there now.

What I did.
Jan 13, 2007

... nice it was that I stayed there two nights instead of the one I had planned.  Iīd definitely recommend  Hotel Princess  Urb Sta Maria D-103, Ica.  If your mototaxi driver tells you he canīt find it, do be insistent.    

finally here.
Sep 1, 2009

... Peru.  From 5 am to 2 am the next day, we traveled from San Fran to Mexico City (had awesome shrimp quesadillas) to Lima, Peru.  Got to our hotel in a not so good part of Lima, but immediately passed out.   Awoke early to some guy on a ...

From Sand Dunes to Serenity...
Jul 12, 2009 (18 photos)

We woke up at 5:30 today, just 3 and a half hours after going to bed, so we could catch our bus to Ica. Somehow, despite the blaring movie being played over the loud speaker, we managed to sleep for 4 of the 4 and a half hour ride. The bus pulled into a ...

Baby sea lion swimming school and other adventures
May 2, 2006 (18 photos)

... school and other adventures Hello devoted readers, family and friends! I returned from our epic five day adventure to Nazca, Ica and Paracas yesterday morning at 4am, hence the lack of entries for a week or so. Highlights included dodgy tire repairs ...

Haucachina
Apr 6, 2007 (12 photos)

Ica

To the Desert in Haccachino
Nov 23, 2006

Did a stint in the Desert. Hot weather swimming pools, Sandboarding and DunneBuggys ....what more do you want from a desert!

End of Lima and Ica
Aug 5, 2005 (4 photos)

We left Lima yesterday after seeing the museo de La Nacion which was a good overview of all the different cultures in Peru. Then we jumped on a nice bus that drove us to Ica, a town about 300 km south of Lima. The trip was supposed to last about 3 hours ...

Sandstorm, blowing in my hair!
Jun 2, 2009 (13 photos)

... this was exciting as you couldnīt see where you were going! What a ride though and definately something worth doing. We stayed in Ica for 3 nights which was probably a bit too long. One night would have been enough. We then moved onto Cusco to acclimitise ...

An Oasis in the middle of the desert
Mar 9, 2006 (9 photos)

Isn't stay in Nazca very long...actually 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 ...

Fun in the Sand
May 6, 2005

One helluva fun day in the Sand. As the drive continued we gradually got into some massive sand dune terrritory. After boarding some dune buggies with allegedly some top Peruivian Rally driver we went cavorting in the sand. Much fun as these buggies ...

The Dunes
Nov 18, 2009 (4 photos)

... Siberia Bowl of sand, right outside our hostel door.  Huacachina is a tiny town outside the bustling city of Ica on the southern coast of Peru.  Built as a retreat for Peruvian elite,  today it serves as a mecca for sandboarders, and those ...

oasis in Ica
Jun 30, 2007 (3 photos)

Hola, So, after our wintery island trip, we made it out of there and got on another bus and arrived in this amazing oasis of a place.  The wee town is surrounded by rolling massive sand dunes and was roasting hot!  Our hotel had a swimming ...

Ica and a boring week in Lima
Mar 4, 2008

... , so I picked up my card waiting for me at the South American Explorers Club, which I joined on my second day in Peru. So today we took a bus to Ica, 3 hours, very nice place and we got a decent room and booked our trip to the to the "Isla de la Plata" - ...

What would you do?
Jan 11, 2007

I arrived in Ica a while ago.  From the bus station I got into a moto taxi and asked to be taken to the hotel in my trusty Footprint guidebook.  A fare was agreed and we set off.  The taxi driver could not find the address, he ...

Ica - Nasca
Feb 28, 2006 (5 photos)

... to see the lines and Tuk, after years of flyig, threw up for the first time! And, do you know that they make wine in Peru? We didnīt. We visited īTacamaī, which was recommended to us as one of the best and largest. (Tacama is a kind of bird, now extinct ...

Ica again for some rehab after Cusco!
Oct 21, 2007 (10 photos)

Myself Ed Col and Andy got into Ica and headed for the oasis just outside of town called Haucachina, like I was saying earlier, a small village built around a little lake, which is famous for its sandboarding. For ...

We zijn er...
Nov 9, 2007 (7 photos)

Hallo allemaal, Huidige plaats: Ica Temp: 25 graden Bruin? Nog niet (maar wel mooi kleurtje rood..) Eerste berichten uit Peru: -Vliegreis was lang en we hebben best een flinke jetlag gehad.. -Bij aankomst bleek het hotel voor de eerste nacht ...

Next stop, the desert - Ica
Aug 11, 2005

... returned to Ica, we negotiate a deal with Angel to take on a tour of the regions famous Vineyards (actually the only ones in Peru). He wastes no time in whisking us off to the first and most famous, Tacama, now an industrial producer and exporter of wine ...

ICA son pisco et son oasis
May 25, 2009 (11 photos)

... on monte et descend les dunes avec le bugguy et įa fait beaucoup de sensations. On a une une superbe vue sur l'oasis d'Ica ! Magnifique ! Mon premier oasis ! C'est impressionnant. Un lac entouré d'arbres et d'hôtels en plein milieu de désert de sable ! Le ...