Travel Blogs from Ica, Peru

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Wait, there's more!, Ica, Peru travel blog

Wait, there's more!

A travel blog entry by excitethesoul

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... , 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Peru, Pisco Winery in Ica

A travel blog entry by ninaholidays

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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, Nasca, Huacachina, Peru travel blog

Dunes, buggies and sandboarding

A travel blog entry by kevinm

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... 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Fat Geordie Idiot on a Sandboard

A travel blog entry by davidbowmaker

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... 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Fun in the Sand

A travel blog entry by zmasey

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, Peru travel blog

Ica (Couldnt think of a lot else)

A travel blog entry by danstravelworld

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... 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, Lima, Pisco, Ica and Arequipa, Peru travel blog

Mummies, guinea pigs and boy bands

A travel blog entry by melquiardes

... 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 ...

Ica, Ica, Peru travel blog

Ica

A travel blog entry by correll

Ica ...

All good things.., Ica, Peru travel blog

All good things..

A travel blog entry by anjil

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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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Sand Boarding and Dune Buggying

A travel blog entry by amyleigh

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... 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!!, Ica, Peru travel blog

Sandboarding in Huacachina!!

A travel blog entry by tomandlizzie

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...  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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Marmite and raw power

A travel blog entry by stemaxc

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... 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 ...

Wine festival, Ica - Huacuchina, Peru travel blog

Wine festival

A travel blog entry by hotteawhereever

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

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A travel blog entry by bugs1983

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Wildlife and Sand Dunes, Ica, Peru travel blog

Wildlife and Sand Dunes

A travel blog entry by samandpriya

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... 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Paracas

A travel blog entry by floribandini

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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, Nazca, Peru travel blog

Pisco to Nazca

A travel blog entry by tonyandsara_rtw

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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, Nazca, Ica and Paracas, Peru travel blog

Baby sea lion swimming school and other adventures

A travel blog entry by kristinb

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... 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, Arequipa, nazca, and ica, Peru travel blog

crazy flight over nazca lines and sandboarding

A travel blog entry by aimlesswanderer

... 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Interpol's most wanted

A travel blog entry by mrjoe

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... , 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Two flowers in the desert

A travel blog entry by tonyc-r

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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, Peru travel blog

Feb 11, 2010

A travel blog entry by rightwayaround

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Ica, Ica, Peru travel blog

Ica

A travel blog entry by stubo

... 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Ica

A travel blog entry by stubo

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, Huacachina (Ica), Peru travel blog

Sand in every available orifice

A travel blog entry by harrisonhines

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... 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, Huachachina, Peru travel blog

Oasis for the world

A travel blog entry by ab1kenobe

... 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Surfing on Sand

A travel blog entry by amber

... 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Ica

A travel blog entry by johnniemorrow

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... 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, Nazca, Peru travel blog

Lima to Nazca...the start of the history lesson

A travel blog entry by cornflake

... 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, Ica, Peru travel blog

Sand boarding in Huacacina ........Peru

A travel blog entry by robkeane

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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 ...

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