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Huacachina Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Huacachina, Peru
Sand dunes in Peru, who´d have thought it eh?
... come here and go to another town on the coast instead, boy are we glad we came here!! Arriving in Huacachina was like entering into a differnt world! Coming from big gray, smoggy Lima it was like arriving in the ...
snow boarding on sand dunes
We took another overnight Cruz del Sur bus trip, this time to Ica and then on by taxi to a Huacachina, an oasis in the desert. What a bizarre place. Overall it looked like it had seen better days. Apparently it was a big hit in the 1940s or something. We ...
Islas Ballestas, Paracas, Huacachina
... gold sand. I was just as surprised as other travelers to discover the Sahara Desert on the coast of Peru. We arrived at the village of Huacachina under the cover of darkness. Under the faint moonlight we could immediately see the silver dunes towering ...
An oasis, yes please!
... on the coast of Peru, but no one stays in Ica, why would you when 5 km away there is a beautiful little oasis named Huacachina. The lake is now artificial but who cares, surrounded by sand dunes, Huacachina is a nice getaway. It's off-season for my ...
Islas Ballestas and Huacachina
... set on the side of a tiny lake. It features on the back of the 50 nuevo soles note in Peru. The sand dunes make Huacachina a popular place to sand board and some of us ventured out in giant dune buggies to go boarding. ...
Huacachina Baby!
... pisco...mmmmmmmm Hucachina was awesome - now for the first overnight bus trip!! Jan 9 Update Lisa: "On a bus from paracas to huacachina - time for some wineries and sandboarding!! Amazing that the bus has wifi!" Phin: “On a bus in south America ...
My first sight of a desert oasis
After a much more comfortable overnight journey than the last, I arrived in the beautiful desert oasis town of Huacachina. Although a little unfortunate that there has been such a large development of hotels, restaurants and bars around the oasis, ...
Lima to Huacachina via Ika
... occupied. All light headed from all the wine we headed to Huacachina, this is where we would stay the night (or so we thought). Huacachina is known for the massive (1700m) dunes where you can do sand boarding. It is also one of the images on the 50 soles ...
Swine flu and sandboarding
I already been poorly for quite a while and I deteriorated somewhat while I was on the bus. I pretty much spent the next 2 days in bed trying to sleep it off and knowing that the sandboarding (which we had come for) was beyond me until I got better. I ...
Sandboarding and dune buggies
Huacachina is a nice little oasis village set in the middle some large sand dunes. Basically, there is one street with resturants and hotels around a lake. The lake a lovely brown colour but it still looks great with palm trees and then the buildings and ...
Huacachina y una boca llena de arena
... played a Phil Collins song, but covered in Spanish. Good shit. So yeah, I think that´s pretty much it for Huacachina...I left my second day and took an overnight bus ride to Arequipa, where I´m at now and will stay until I take ...
Huacachina
Huacachina was stunning. It is a tiny little town near to Ica, a stuffy 19 hour bus ride from Cusco, my last dstination. It was a very surreal place as it was just one row of buildings around a lake edged in palm trees and surrounded by ...
Desert and dunes
After leaving Lima we headed to the desert for an overnight excursion. Arriving in town we headed into the desert in dune buggies that were being driven by mad men thankfully and their quick turning, speed, ascents and descents were fantastic which also ...
wine tour in a desert oasis, COUNT US IN!
... off, boom. boom. boom. an hour later the construction taking place at the hostel started up, tink. tink. tink. ha! gee-whiz. Huacachina was a quick stop but it proved to be a GREAT little oasis. Willy was as wild as we were and it made the tour ...
follow that up with sand dune buggy riding
Crazy dune buggy riding over massive sand dunes around the oasis at Huacachina. Watched the sun set over the dunes. Suntan lotion and blowing sand leads to very gritty skin. Loved every minute of this. Watched people sand boarding ...
Dunes Dunes Dunes
After arrving in Ica we quickly jumped in a taxi to make the short trip to the nearby oasis town of Huacachina. Its a tiny town built around a desert Oasis, the main reason to come here is to chill out in the desert sun and to go sandboarding down the ...
Shaken but not stirred
... manage to book ourselves on a trip out to the islands for the next day and combine it with sand boarding and dune buggying in Huacachina, which is basically the name of a small oasis in the middle of the Peruvian desert where you can hit the dunes. ...
Huacachina, Perú
... el frío era impresionante! Al siguiente día reservamos el tour en los buggies por las dunas, que es el principal atractivo de Huacachina. Sin embargo, el tour salía a las 2 p.m. y mientras tanto decidimos coger las tablas e ir a intentar hacer sand ...
The forming of an unlikely friendship
My visit to Huaccachina started in the same fashion that many of my other adventures in South America have… With a lot of confusion! Thanks to an amazingly disorganized travel agent in Arequipa, I was unaware that the bus that I was on was ...
Sand and Sun in Canada
Huacachina is a tiny oasis in the middle of the Peruvian desert. While in Asia, we decided to take a day trip for sandboarding and sandrailling and so Kurt drove us the two hours South. When we got there we reailzed that we could take the V6 sail rail ...
Wine tours, Sandboarding and Discotecas!
... very nice Peruvian girls who invited us to go out with them the next night. The following morning we walked around Huacachina which is centered around a lagoon and is held in by mountainous dunes everywhere you look. The scenery is absolutely gorgeous ...
Meals to make you run, sand runs...
... at times, through small peruvian towns, and finally arid desert landscapes as we approahed Ica. We shared a taxi with some Kiwi´s to Huacachina the desert oasis which will be our home for the next few days. It is absolutly beautiful just like a cartoon ...
Bloody computers!!!
Ok, so twice now we have sat for about an hour trying to write a funny interesting entry about our latest adventures and failed, first time it deleted it for some unnown reason, second the conputer crashed....we are not about to sit here for another ...
Update! - Travel photos up to 13 July
... Pisco winery in Ica, been to the Islas Ballestas to see the wildlife (sea lions, penguins and lots of birds), been to Huacachina for dune buggying and sand bording (incredible!) and now we´re in Arequipa and about to go rafting this afternoon. Yesterday ...
A diamond in the sand
Our bus only went as far as Ica so we took a taxi to Huacachina (which cost about a pound!) and to the hostel we'd chosen. We chose wisely it was a lovely, modern hostel with pool and in house restaurant completely surrounded by sand dunes, surreal but ...
The Sand Sport Oasis
... and bar, bringing to life the area's reputation as a rowdy weekend getaway. Outside drinking, dancing and eating the main activity in Huacachina is dune buggy riding and sand-boarding; we opted for a 2-in-1 tour. The dune buggys are 6 to 12 seater metal ...
Sandy Like Aladdin
In an Oasis in the desert sits the tiny town of Huacachina. The little lake in the centre is overawed by the enormous sand dunes. Walking up those bad boys is a lot more tiring than you think. Every step you take gets you about a fifth of the distance you ...
