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Huacachina Slideshow
Huacachina
Travel Blogs from Huacachina, Peru
Huacachina- Sandboarding Queen
Huacachina was a lot of fun. It is stunning, a lagoon in the middle of a desert. It looks exactly how you would expect an oasis to look. We did a sandboarding tour for a few hours on the dunes, the buggy ride itself was crazy, our driver was mental ...
Heaven Is A Sand Dune
Huacachina, a small oasis surrounded by towering sand dunes on all 4 sides provided me with the most dazzling landscape I have encountered both on this trip or anywhere else in the world. The rolling sand stretches for over 40Km into the distance and some ...
Dunes, Desert and Pisco..
... People are literally still living in tents. We had read that a lot of travellers and tourists were avoiding towns like Ica, Huacachina, Paracas and Pisco because of the earthquake destruction but we decided to go and at least give them some business. The ...
Mucha arena en mi cara
... get back to work on my tan, it makes climbing sand dunes a hellish task which I did not attempt again after my first time! In Huacachina I bumped into Jason who I had met on my Machu Picchu trip. He had met up with a couple of his friends from home ...
Huacachina: sand boarding and dune buggies!
... and is soon sucking up fuel out of the fuel tank to put into ours!! Somehow, we miraculously make it back to Huacachina vaguely in one piece. According to Tim I was the firm winner of the dubious double award of highest speed/best stack of ...
Machu, Nazca and Huacachina.
... the driver! The ride was about 2 hours and almost as soon as we were out of the car we were back in a taxi to Huacachina. Huacachina is great. We can finally relax! Which is good, cause we are both fairly sick. We started getting what seems to be a ...
Psychedelic pizzeria
... really good to. After walking around town a little I think it's safe to say that the culture found in Huacachina Peru is similar to Nelson BC. The difference being it's only reason for existing is tourism. It's the only place where the ...
The Other September 11th - in South America
Have you perchance decided - as I have - not to spend the weekend re-wallowing in 9/11 with the media? Aside from following Saint Rudolph, former tenant of Gracie Mansion, to trumpet once again his self-inflated heroism on that nightmare day, the ...
A Sun-Blasted Oasis on the Rim of a Wasteland
... houses destroyed. After disembarking in Ica while the afternoon sun blazed above in a boundless sky I grabbed a taxi to Huacachina, a natural oasis of 200 residents just outside Ica that was once a hot-spot for the Peruvian elite and now ...
Sand, Sand, Sand!!!!!!!
... pretty professional - in comparison to the people going down on their stomachs!!!!! After each slope, we hopped back in the buggy and went off for another spin. Huacachina is AMAZING!!! A must see on any Peruvian ...
Riding the sandy waves..
... sanddunes! Throughout our travels we had received consistent reports that Ica, or rather the nearby tiny oasis town of Huacachina was a fun filled paradise in Peru. So, a short 2 hr bus ride later from Nazca we were in the tiny oasis town and ready to ...
Peru, Huacachina Sand Dunes
Sat 30.8.08: Peru, Huacachina Sand Dunes PERSONAL: Miles and miles of endless rolling sand dunes and ever-shifting! Inside the jeep, with the sun and wind in our faces, we were one with nature while experiencing an unending ...
Sand dunes and wipeouts
... to control the urge to vomit as the pilot dipped the wings down pointing out the pictures for us. After Nazca we drove to Huacachina which is a small town built around an oasis in the middle of the desert, surrounded by the most enormous sand dunes I ...
What an outsanding way to spend a day!
After the mysterious Nazca Lines our next stop was the oasis town of Huacachina. In all our travels, this was our first ever oasis town and it was exactly how we imagined one to be - a lake surrounded by palm trees & sand dunes! We ...
Sandboarding by the Oasis !
Huachachina is a tiny little village of 200 people in the middle of the desert, built around an oasis in the midst of massive sand dunes. It's so picturesque, it's featured on the back of the 50 soles Peruvian note. It’s located just 10 mins drive ...
Lost in Lima, Hot in Huacachina and Chaos in Cusco
... to an end. I am just glad that I had the opportunity to have and share the experience. My other memories of Lima, Huacachina and Cusco were: (1) The name Inca originally didnīt directly refer to the race of the people but over time has ...
Ballestas Islands + Sand dunes + Food = Awesome
Today we got up at 5am (maybe 4am, thanks to a very loud rooster outside our room) for some free breakfast which consisted of bread with jam, tea, coffee and fresh pineapple banana juice. Then headed to Paracas with a tour group to take a boat ...
Machu Picchu, Mummies and more sand!
... . However, cultural overload had started to kick in by this point and I was itching to get to the massive dunes at Huacachina to get another adrenaline buzz. So whilst Greg headed north to the Nazca Lines, I took myself off in another ...
Birthday in the desert
For Brianīs 33rd birthday we went to Huacachina, an oasis outside Ica. For a change our purpose for going there was not an archaeological site or a natural wonder but the huge sand dunes surrounding the oasis. Going to an oasis was also pretty ...
Huacachina, the desert oasis.
... air-horn - boy racers in taxis!!! We soon got bored of the throng, it was time to head to our next port of call, Huacachina. Itīs a 5 minute taxi ride from Ica but it looks like a different world. We were already in the middle of the desert but didn't ...
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 ...
Dune Buggy Mania!!!!
Hey hey! After our short visit to Lima, we headed to Huacachina (thanks for letting us know about it Renee!!). Huacachina is a small town close to Ica - Itīs an oasis surrounded by massive sand dunes - looked pretty crazy, felt like we were in 'Aladdin', ...
Big City and Even Bigger Sand Dunes
... strangest places we have come across. Situated in the middle of towering sand dunes that stretch for miles in any direction, Huacachina consists of a series of fancy but old buildings surrounding a smelly lagoon. Apparently in its heyday it was a place ...
Sand sand and more sand
We had been recommended a hotel in Huacachina by several people, the Huacachinero, and it was indeed a great place to relax. Huacachina is a tiny resort village nestled amongst some giant sand dunes, with an oasis as the focal point. We just spent a ...
Sand dunes sand dunes everywhere...
After Arequipa Laura and I headed to a place id heard about which was pretty much on the coast, and famous for sand boarding and something else. We arrived early one morning and immediately set about exploring the place. 15 minutes later we had looked ...
hola from paradise!!
... kind words to describe this ever wonderful and hospitable man!... this afternoon lisa and i made our way down to huacachina. huacachina is a small oasis village consisting of approximately three or less streets. the village, with a population of ...
Oasis!
Peru just keeps impressing me more and more! this place, onece again, its fantastic! its a laid back small (actually its tiny)town full of turist just looking to relax a little and get a bit of sun whilst drinking a nice cold Pisco sour whilst on a ...