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Ica Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ica, Peru
Wait, there's more!
... , they were trying to save some cash by camping at hostels that would let them or at dedicated campsites. Their plan was to scour Peru then eventually make it over to Bolivia. Both of them did not know a lick of Spanish. On top of that, ...
Peru, Pisco Winery in Ica
Sat 30.8.08: Peru, Ica Pisco Winery PERSONAL: I really like Pisco Sour - dangerous stuff though! Pisco Sour is a cocktail made from pisco combined with lemon juice, egg white and sugar. Its like vodka and comparable to Sambuca. It has an odor ...
Dunes, buggies and sandboarding
... later and took a taxi to Huacachina which is an oasis resort in the desert. Amazing place - this is a must see place if in Peru! Huge, huge sand dunes surround the oasis - perfect for sandboarding. We took a buggy trip out to the dunes - this involved ...
Fat Geordie Idiot on a Sandboard
... no such email but thankfully we later learn this was only due to Suzie's lack of consideration. We catch a bus North to Ica, which takes about two hours. At one point a snake oil salesman begins peddling sachets of ointment to our fellow travellers. ...
Fun in the Sand
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 ...
Ica (Couldnt think of a lot else)
... Ica. In comparison to Pisco it was huge. A giant sprawling city. In reality it was a large town. Most people come to Ica to visit their famous museum full of Pre-Inca and Inca artefacts as well as take a visit to local vineyards (Pisco made ...
Mummies, guinea pigs and boy bands
... on the situation but hopefully the President will resign and things will get better for the locals. And that's about it. I like Peru a lot! There are parts that are so beautiful and there's always something to do and see although we haven't experienced ...
All good things..
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 ...
Sand Boarding and Dune Buggying
... 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 ...
Sandboarding in Huacachina!!
... 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 didn´t quite understand why it was such a state untill ...
Marmite and raw power
... I had originally intended to hit the highway. But where to next? The choices were Nazca for the lines and a flight in a light plane, Ica and the Huacachina oasis or straight on to much-maligned Lima. I decided to give Nazca a miss - very expensive for a ...
Wildlife and Sand Dunes
... 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 ...
Paracas
A nice paradise, are many island around to the sea, you can see penguins, sea lions, an estrange figure similar to Nazca´s line, anyway the trip is good very interesting. The towns how Chincha and Pisco after to the earthquake the ...
Pisco to Nazca
We had a few things to do in Lima to get ourselves ready. Tony tried to look for a sun hat to save him from a burny death but no hat could be found that was big enough! This kept the local shopkeepers amused. So after that fruitless ...
Baby sea lion swimming school and other adventures
... swimming 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 ...
crazy flight over nazca lines and sandboarding
... 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
... , 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
Today we have our first ¨free¨ 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 ...
Feb 11, 2010
Ica
... 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 ...
Ica
Back to Ica again. We booked our Sand boarding and then went to book the bus - this was a problem and everything clashed so we had to cancel our sandboarding, book the bus and then eat extremely quickly so we could catch the 6pm bus to Cuzco. It is ...
Sand in every available orifice
... after 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 ...
Oasis for the world
... in the 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 ...
Surfing on Sand
... 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 ...
Ica
... like that. I got a bus with a company called Soyuz which the guy in the hostel in Lima said was ok. 5 hours later I arrived in Ica and got a taxi to a hostel beside the sand dunes. When I got to the hostel I went to get my passport from my small bag but ...
Lima to Nazca...the start of the history lesson
... geoglyphs 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 ...
Sand boarding in Huacacina ........Peru
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 ...