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Ica Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Ica, Peru
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 ...
Sunny Ica
Hello, We arrived successfully in Ica following the 5 hour bus journey from Lima. The first thing we noticed was how much warmer it was than Lima (scorchio!). Getting the taxi to the hotel was a little difficult as none of the taxi drivers had ...
Nazcar and Ica (up and sandy)
... had 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 ...
Not quite midnight at the Oasis
... Ica are some large sand dunes, some of which reach 400m. Today we 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 ...
The Dunes of Ica
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
... 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 ...
Nascar cum Ica cum El Huacachina
... 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 ...
Nazca Lines
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 ...
Huacacina.
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
... us all sick, 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! ...
I love hiking in socks and sandals....
... the van from Yungay (a town completely buried in the 1970 quake) up towards the face of Huascaran the highest mountain in Peru at 6768m. We drove into the Llanganuco valley passing the turquoise glacial waters of the Llanganuco ...
Desert and Oasis.... of sorts
... 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 ...
Haucachina Oasis, Ica and the Peruvian desert.
... headed to get our bus tickets and after some confusion succeeded. We scoffed down some dinner before rushing to the CIAL bus terminal in Ica for our bus to Arequipa. On the ticket the leaving time was 7pm but in reality the bus didn’t appear until ...
Vino and Sand in Peru!
... 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 ...
Sand Boarding in the Oasis
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 ...
Ica - huaccachina
... a rendition of Molly Malone. I think the locals thought it was some sort of protest. Huaccachina is about 5 k outside of Ica, an oasis in the desert and home to the biggest sand dune in the world or so they claim. Peruvians seem to ...
Purple Cobras and the Dirty Sanchez
... to the top to do it all again. My final day in Ica was spent at the best small museum I have been to, Mueso Regional de Ica. Sure, due to lack of funds they have lost a lot of stuff to the international art theft market but what remained was ...
Sandboarding............WIPE OUT!
... point he get pulled up and had his trunk (boot) thoroughly searched!! Sandboarding..... We were sandboarding in a place called Ica just south of lima in peru. Sandboarding is like a skateboard with no wheels. You stand up on them or lie face down ...
Sun and sand board
... entire road was on the Andi`s mountains (which are really high), it was a very difficult drive. On Wednesday morning we arrived to Ica from there we took a taxi to Mocachina, a place with big huge dunes. We went to hostel Casa Arena 2 where there was a ...
Sandboarding
Sama Ica, nu, nic moc. Podobna Nazce i Piscu, hlucna, poustne sucha, spinava a smrdici (nebo vonici?) po Indii. Vubec, cim jsme vys, cim casteji mame pocit, ze jsme v Indii. I mistni obcas resi problemy po indicku :-) Primo v Ice urcite stoji za videni ...
Huacachina/Nasca
... un deserto che si fa sempre piu deserto. In effetti e' incredibile, e mai avremmo pensato che tutta la costa del Peru fosse cosi. Solo ogni tanto, la sabbia e le rocce lasciano spazio a valli verdeggianti (non lussureggianti, verdeggianti mi sembra dia ...
From the dunes and to the Sea
... known as the poor-manīs galapagos, but they are in no way comparable, except for the fact that you can see a range of birds - peru boobies, humbolt penguins, inca terns as well as the sea lions. It was a nice trip and on the way we saw "the candelabra" ...
Sand Dunes Baby ....yea
... was at the back and asked her what she was doing and we all ended up going to the same hostel in Huacachina Lagoon. Ica isnt really the destination for most traveller its Huacachina Lagoon and the sand boarding you can do there. As soon as we got to the ...
Travel Trial #1
We have survived our first travel trial with only a few minor losses! The overnight bus from Arequipa to a little town called Ica was an experience in itself. Our tickets said, "Ica" but that is not where we were "let off" the bus that was heading to ...
Huacachina
... in die Antarktis in Lima waren, koennen wir es ruhig angehen lassen. Zusammen mit Eliane und Fabian reisen wir nach Ica. Dort gibt es fuenf Minuten ausserhalb der Stadt eine Oase, wo es sich laut Reisefuehrer gut ausspannen laesst. Da wir allerdings ...
Huacachina Oasis, sandboarding and buggy riding...
As much as i like Peru i think it been hit with the tourist virus really bad!! Everything is catered for the tourist, even some tours i went on in small towns the folks put on shows they have done a million times and obvioulsy not enjoying themselves! ...