Country Info
- Lima
- Capital
- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
- Currency
- 27,483,864
- Population
- PE
- Country Code
Ica Slideshow
Top Hotels in Ica
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Hotel Las Dunas Ica
88 reviews -
Hostal Sol de Ica
19 reviews -
Hotel Austria Ica
10 reviews
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Hotel Belle Sand Ica
12 reviews
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Hotel Ollanta Ica
16 reviews
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La Florida Inn Ica
2 reviews
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Ocucaje Sun & Wine Resort Ica
1 review
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El Carmelo Hotel and Hacienda Ica
25 reviews
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Hotel Villa de Valverde Ica
11 reviews
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Mantantial de Santo Domingo Ica
3 reviews
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Real Hotel Ica
7 reviews -
El Parral Hotel Ica
2 reviews
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Hostal Rocha Ica
9 reviews
Ica
Travel Blogs from Ica, Peru
Driving with Jesus
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Andelay, Ariba, Ica!
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Hunting Sharks in the Desert
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Penguins, Desert Lines and Sand Dunes
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Bad wine and dune boards...feliz aņo nuevo!
This is a top pick! ... wine-tasting - the green valley in which the otherwise uninteresting town of Ica nestles is pretty much the only wine-growing region in Peru. Itīs also the home of Peruīs home-grown spirit, Pisco (the town Pisco, which weīd visited the day before, ...
Another World
This is a top pick! ... thermals 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 ...
Huacachina og sandboarding
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
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
... 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 ...
Rucksack all gone!
... 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 ...
putting me on the map
i realized that i didn't show you where ica was on the map. There should be a dot there ...
What I did.
... 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.
... 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 ...
2 of Peru with the wonderful Kirsty
Met up with Kirsty at last in Lima, and left straight away for Arequipa for trekking (or more accurately bus sitting), and protest ...
From Sand Dunes to Serenity...
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 ...
Dune buggies and Huacachina oasis
Ola!! Today I'm going to Ica by bus, named Cruz del sur. I left lima at 630 am to the bus station. The bus cost to Ica was 55 soles. This is a tourist coach, which is very comfie since the seat can recline almost t0 55 degrees, better than an airplane ...
Ica - Sandboarding
... walked up the giant sand hills. Which reminds me I didn't mention yet it's all desert here. Until now what I saw of Peru is soooo dry!!! I am longing for some green... So there were giant sand dunes which made this place, Huacachina, famous for ...
Sandboarding in Icas Duenen
... vielmehr freuen wir uns drueber, wie gut wir es mit unserer Famulatur im Norden getroffen haben- und das "wahre Peru- ohne Touristen" kennenlernen durften. Aber die meisten Sehenswuerdigkeiten und Attraktionen sind auf jeden Fall im Sueden! Das tollste ...
To the Desert in Haccachino
Did a stint in the Desert. Hot weather swimming pools, Sandboarding and DunneBuggys ....what more do you want from a ...
End of Lima and Ica
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!
... 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 ...
Mi primer viaje (Primera parte)
... de viaje! Despues de un fin de semana de relax laboral en el hostal (y asadito!), sali de Lima el pasado lunes y estoy recorriendo Peru junto con Lula, una Peruana que labura hace ya 8 meses como TC y es mi entrenadora. El grupo que nos toco es ...
An Oasis in the middle of the desert
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 ...
The Dunes
... 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
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
... , 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?
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 ...