Ica, Peru Travel Blogs

Mummies, guinea pigs and boy bands
Oct 27, 2003

... okay and work's not too awful. Just a quickie to let you know we are safe and alive - although only just! The people in Peru are crazy, especially the drivers! We arrived in Lima, our first port of call, two weeks ago and made it to our hostel by the ...

Ica
May 25, 2007

Ica

All good things..
May 12, 2004 (5 photos)

Flew back to Lima from Iquitos, nothing to do now but hang out and wait for my flight ticket for the UK to come through. In the meanwhile take a quick trip to see the Ballestas Islands in the Paracas National Reserve.

Sand Boarding and Dune Buggying
Apr 11, 2008 (11 photos)

... is a quaint tourist based village wrapping around a lagoon, in the midst of endless rolling sand dunes on the outskirts of Ica.  The place is beautiful and I have never before imagined such impressive sand dunes!  The hostel I stayed at ...

Sandboarding in Huacachina!!
Jul 11, 2008 (67 photos)

...  that the hostal organises - not the most fun ever but kept us entertained before checking out and heading back to Ica to catch a bus to Pisco. We arrived to a town in turmoil and didnīt quite understand why it was such a state untill ...

Wine festival
Mar 11, 2006 (4 photos)

The wine festival....the photos tell it all...

Wildlife and Sand Dunes
Jun 27, 2007 (5 photos)

... take photos, the swaying motion made me feel quite nauseous.   Back on the bus, we drove to the pleasant town of Ica surrounded by huge sand dunes.   Apart from this, Ica is famous for its wines and there are several wineries and ...

Not quite midnight at the Oasis
May 15, 2007 (6 photos)

... have headed to Huacachina which is only about 5km away from Ica, and is a desert oasis. In the 1940īs it became one of Peruīs most elegant resorts, and today still has quite a bit of glamour to it. In the afternoon we took a ride on a dune buggy, ...

Paracas
Nov 28, 2008 (39 photos)

A nice paradise, are many island around to the sea, you can see penguins, sea lions, an estrange figure similar to Nazcaīs line, anyway the trip is good very interesting. The towns how Chincha and Pisco after to the earthquake the ...

crazy flight over nazca lines and sandboarding
Sep 6, 2004

... it was exactly as it sounds, a pool of water surrounded by houses and unending sanddunes about 10 minutes outside the city of ica...i checked into a wikked hostel that had a poolside bar and lots of common area to meet the many other backpackers that were ...

Interpol's most wanted
Jun 14, 2006 (3 photos)

... , auto-rickshaws and beeping horns. In fact, my first impression is that it reminds me of Delhi. The city is famous in Peru as the wine producing region and shops selling the local plonk are everywhere. It also has an excellent museum, the Museo Regional. ...

Two flowers in the desert
Jun 9, 2008 (2 photos)

Today we have our first ĻfreeĻ day since leaving Oz. We have arrived in Ica, an oasis town in the middle of the driest desert on earth, where we are staying with our travel agent and his family for a few days. (We are led to believe that not all travel ...

Pisco to Nazca
Jan 2, 2007 (17 photos)

... ; We headed out on a speed boat to white capped islands.  We should explain that the caps were not snow but one of Peruīs most important resources - guano! hee hee  The boat ride was amazing and we got to see many different sea birds and a ...

Nascar cum Ica cum El Huacachina
Jul 3, 2008

...  out of town to the little resort town of El Huacachina. Ica and the surrounding region is one of the dryest in Peru, and completely engulfed by sand dunes. El Huacachina has developed as a tourist base for attacking these sand dunes in whatever form ...

Sand in every available orifice
Sep 4, 2006 (9 photos)

... breakfast, but in the 11am sun, he realised the error of his ways and only made it halfway up. This morning, we popped into Ica to do a few bits of "personal administration" and then came back to the hostel to relax by the pool. At 4pm, when the heat ...

Oasis for the world
Nov 8, 2004

... air and at an angle. Beautiful none the less. Went out with a group from my hostel for a nice meal in the nearby city Ica, and when one girl broke the top of the toilet, had my second real test of Spanish, having to understand what the manager was arguing ...

Surfing on Sand
May 6, 2006

... that thrill feeling is fun when u are young.. but the older you get, the more you know, and the more you know what could happen (espcailly in peru), makes it a nailbiting experience and far from thrilling. Im definetly getting too old for all of this...

Lima to Nazca...the start of the history lesson
Apr 21, 2009

... stretch more than 80 km (50 miles) between the towns of Nazca and Palpa on the Pampas de Jumana in Peru. Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, they are largely believed to have been created by the Nazca culture between 200 BCE and ...

Sand boarding in Huacacina ........Peru
Aug 3, 2005 (8 photos)

Just a quick hello from Peru just to show tell you about the 3 days i spent sand boarding and Dune buggy rallying in the Peruvian desert. We were staying in an oasis type resort which was is surrounded by huge sand dunes. Apart from the sand boarding there ...

Nazcar and Ica (up and sandy)
May 6, 2006 (14 photos)

... time to do any work! my fav was the "astronaut" and the "condor" which is huuuge. After the lines we headed outta there and onto.. ICA We arrived in Ica and were shocked to find a (hot) bussling city. the lack of altitude was welcome, but the heat ...

The Dunes of Ica
May 21, 2000

Ica is like a city out of the movie Dune, amazingly HUGE sand dunes surround the oasis area we were in. Wacachina is the capital of Sand Boarding, a sport much like snowboarding only on a waxed board down a sand dune. It is said to be a bit dangerous ...

Local hospitality
Jun 14, 2006 (9 photos)

... to stay with his brother in Ica, we didn't hesitate for one second to snatch up the offer. Hernan's brother lived in Ica, Peru, the Pisco ( a strong local liquor ), capital of the world. We weren't sure what to expect but had never regretted accepting ...

Nazca Lines
Oct 3, 2005 (9 photos)

We arrived in town at 6am and that same morning we went up in the little 4 seater plane that you can see in the photo album. We were both feeling a bit worse for wear from hardly any sleep because some woman couldn't keep her child quiet. It probably wasn ...

Huacacina.
May 21, 2006

After we arrived in Ica we took a taxi to the desert oasis of Huacacina. It is beautiful and totally unreal. A lagoon surrounded by palm trees in the middle of rolling sand dunes... Pretty awesome climate too. We are finally back down to a decent ...

Strange lines and sandboarding
Sep 5, 2005 (3 photos)

... , turning tightly to the left and then to the right! After lunch we got a collectivo (kind f like a shared taxi) to Ica, 2 1/2 hours away. Our collectivo was a huge old American car, and managed to squeeze 6 passengers into it -very cosy! Huacachina ...

Desert and Oasis.... of sorts
Mar 18, 2007

... out of Lima, and we did. Caught the bus down to Ica, which is a sandy little nothing town about halfway down the coast of Peru. The landscape we witnessed on the way down there was nothing like what you expect of Peru. Sand, sand and more sand. With some ...

Vino and Sand in Peru!
Mar 5, 2007 (3 photos)

... guy! A relatively pleasant bus ride later, (Hey! My knees aren't in my chest!) we got off in Ica.  I hadn't realized that most of coastal Peru is in fact desert, with only an occasional oasis town along a river flowing from the Andes or a natural ...

Arequipa, Nazca, Ica and Lima
Mar 2, 2004 (28 photos)

Some pics from Arequipa, Nazca, Ica and Lima

Ica
Jan 8, 2008

... is a seriously touristy town 5 hours south of Lima. It took an age to get here but it will cut down on our next trip to Cuzco. Ica is in the sand dunes an the idea is now I am going to nazca for a little tour for a bargain $55 while Sarah stays in bed. ...

Sand Boarding in the Oasis
Jun 23, 2006 (19 photos)

Ica was great, an actual desert oasis, 1.6 ml of rain a year and stone splitting sun the rest of the time, went sandboarding here, they have mountain sand dunes and the desert is maybe one of the most beautifull and peacefull places I have been, apart from ...