Huacachina, Peru Travel Blogs

Desert Dreaming
Oct 30, 2005 (11 photos)

... to get out of Bolivia before this Decembers elections!) One important stop on the way however was the desert oasis of Huacachina for a spot of sand boarding and dune buggy riding. Huacachina really is an oasis in its realest sense! A small town ...

Dune bugies and Sandboarding
Jan 19, 2007 (3 photos)

Wed 17th - Fri 19th. Took a bus up the coast to Ica and then a taxi ride 10mins inland to the town of Huacachina. This place is surrounded by giant sand dunes and we took a spin in a dune buggy out into the desert to do some sandboarding. The boarding ...

Yo Veo Boobies
Jun 12, 2006 (3 photos)

... , or possibly a hallucinogenic cactus. It was made by the Paracas culture, but no-one really knows why. Anyway, I returned to Huacachina where I met up with Francois from Huaraz who told me that everyone at the Churup had seen the notice in the paper ...

Sand-boarding
Apr 21, 2006 (1 photos)

... I was pretty confident the sex-mad folk of Ica would have better things to do than watch rugby!! My third fond memory of Huacachina is sand-boarding. Being driven from dune to dune in a dune-buggy by a driver I'm certain wouldn't pass a driving test in ...

Huacachina
Oct 14, 2006

 

Last few days
Aug 7, 2009

... enlivened yet cut short somewhat when shortly after finishing our meals the restaurant was plunged into absolute darkness - the whole of Huacachina had had a power cut. After fumbling around with phones as torches to sort out paying the bill, we made our ...

Huacachina
May 15, 2008 (4 photos)

... our door. When the fog cleared in the morning and we saw the huge sand dunes surrounding the oasis we were glad we came. Huacachina is a tiny place with basically one street that curves round 3 sides of the small lagoon. Most people who come here do ...

Peruvian Oasis
Jun 7, 2006 (16 photos)

Make sure to check out Andrea's Travel Blog for more stories and photos of our trip! Peruvian Oasis Huacachina is a small oasis surrounded by giant sand dunes. The town exists only to cater to tourists and is very close to nearby Ica. Although ...

The Nazca Lines and Arrival in Huacachina
Aug 2, 2009

... by, then dozed for a bit. Te journey only took two and a half hours, and soon we were in a taxi on the short journey to Huacachina. On arriving at our hostel, we were very impressed - it was more of a hotel, set around a lovely big pool. We went up to our ...

Sandboarding
Aug 3, 2009

... it to him, and after fixing you with a slightly menacing sideways stare will start hopping towards you. Intriguing little bird. Anyway, Huacachina. Iīve never been anywhere like this before. Itīs a tiny little town set around an oasis in the middle of the ...

Dune Buggies and Sandboarding in an oasis
Oct 4, 2008 (6 photos)

... heavy otherwise we may have arrived with no luggage. The next morning we took a Cruz del Sur bus to Ica to reach Huacachina, a desert oasis to experience sand boarding and dune buggies. Blue sky, sunshine, 28oC and being able to sunbathe and swim was such ...

Midnight...at the oasis!
Sep 21, 2006 (14 photos)

... from there we went into the massive sand dunes that lie just outside the town to stay in a little oasis town called Huacachina. This was an awesome little place that was exactly how you would imagine an oasis....a huge lagoon, lots of tropical vegetation, ...

Huacachina
Jul 8, 2007

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Oasis
Nov 3, 2008 (48 photos)

Huacachina has the only oasis in South America, a smelly lagoon surrounded by sand dunes. The water is supposed to be good for arthritis and the town consists of one street wrapped around the little lagoon. Itīs a very popular spot for ...

Peru Gringo Chapter 1
Aug 30, 2008 (26 photos)

... or nicked anything from us. After two days in Lima we battered on to Ica and then got a hostel in nearby Huacachina, a sweet looking oasis about five minutes from Ica. Most of the people there are young travellers looking to chill out and go ...

The Sandman never sleeps...
Nov 9, 2004 (2 photos)

We took a buggy, a big yellow and blue framed vehicle, out through the town and up to the dunes. Clear your mind of the concept of tiny, waist high nuisances, and instead picture mountains of gold stretching maybe 250 meters high. We soon left the small ...

Cuzco to Huacachina
Feb 13, 2008 (4 photos)

... nbsp;     On route to Lima, our final destination before flying home, we visited Arequipa, Nazca and Huacachina. Arequipa nestles amongst volcanic landscape. The active volcano - El Misti, looms ominously behind Peruīs second ...

Huacachina
Apr 2, 2009 (30 photos)

... got a cab straight to Huacachina, an oasis in the desert surrounded by giant sand dunes just 5km from dusty and grim Ica. Huacachina is beautiful, juts a few old buildings and palm trees round a lake. It was popular with the high society of Peru in the ...

Sandboarding a Huacachina
Jul 21, 2008 (82 photos)

... vecu. Au passage, je confirme les commentaires que nous recevons, nous en profitons jusqu'au bout :). Pour notre derniere journee a Huacachina, nous avons glande au bord de la piscine, puis Jeremy a loue une planche et nous avons grimpe avec Kate 100m ...

Bare for ā vise hvor vi har vaert...#3
Mar 9, 2007

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Another Clinic Trip
Aug 4, 2009

Today, the tablets I had been given in Cusco having done nothing whatsoever, I decided to visit another doctor. I got the address from reception, and me and Claire (my doctor-visiting companion) got a taxi into Ica. On arrival at the private clinic I met ...

Sandboarding
Apr 15, 2005 (3 photos)

Huacachina, a place only for sandboarding and seeing the Deserts of Peru. The dune buggies weren't bad either. I stayed in a place run by total cowboys and thier sandboarding trips. They had these buggies that they'd built with huge 4 liter engines the ...

Desert night
Nov 9, 2009 (25 photos)

... aanrader, veel leuker dan paragliden en ongetwijfeld niet voor pussy's ;-) Hasta Luego! English version We have arrived in Huacachina, an oasis town close to the bigger city of Ica. Because we arrived late at the evening and we didn ...

A Princess' Leftover Dirty Bathwater
Jul 10, 2008 (4 photos)

Huacachina (waka-cheena), once the playground of Peru's rich and elite, this 'Oasis' 5km out of Ica now purely survives and exists for young, backpacker tourists out for a cheap thrill to hurl themselves on boards down the enormous sand dunes, or be hurled ...

Oasis getaway
Apr 18, 2007 (3 photos)

We are HERE until Sunday. (These arenīt our photos... these I grabbed from the internet....)

Oasis in the Peruvian desert
Jun 17, 2006 (18 photos)

When we got to Huacachina late in the evening we couldn't see any of the surrounding scenery. So after a (over priced) dinner we walked around the deserted town... for being "high tourist" season, there isn't many people around. After a not so great ...

Lines and the Oasis
May 30, 2007 (13 photos)

Stopped in Nazca for a few hours for an overflight of the famous lines. Fairly impressive. Then went onto Huacachina, an Oasis village set amongst sand dunes. Was there for 2 days but didnīt really do that much, just messing around at the hostel. 

Huacachina/Nasca
Oct 19, 2006 (14 photos)

... citta' dove non si puo' fare nulle per cazzeggiare. Fortuna incontriamo un po' della gente che stava con noi in ostello a Huacachina e facciamo due chiacchiere e due birrette. Una ragazza belga e' una mezcla tra la Anna del circolino e la Tod, simpatica e ...

Huacachina, Peru
Jan 10, 2008 (4 photos)

After Lima headed down to the desert in Peru to the weirdist town in the world.  Its basically a lagoon surrounded by some shipe and houses in the middle of the desert.  I think the people who live there probelly go mad quite quickly there.  ...

BBQs and Sand Boarding in a Desert Oasis
Aug 5, 2005 (5 photos)

Huacachina is exactly what we needed after our bus mishap. This little oasis town is adorable with warm days and cool nights. We stayed at the popular backpacker hostel, Casa del Arena, that had a pool, cabana bar, and an area filled with hammocks for ...