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- Lima
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- Nuevo Sol (PEN)
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Ica Slideshow
Ica
Travel Blogs from Ica, Peru
Heading to the Coast
... the bus in San Clemente and were met by our guide, Pancho. We then had to cross the highway to catch a public bus to reach Ica, our destination. The public bus, as you can imagine, was nothing like the "tour bus" we had been on. It was ...
Ica and Huacachina
7am Oltursa bus from Lima to Ica. Luxury bus with reclining seats, fleecy blankets, sandwiches, coffee, free wi-fi. However, we weren't so keen on the back to back Hollywood rom coms played back to back and blasted out on the speakers throughout the ...
Pisco Tour
Peru is (rightly) proud of its Pisco, a tasty beverage made from distilled grapes. You can drink it straight or enjoy it in its popular form as the Pisco Sour cocktail. I have lost track of how many Pisco Sours we have sampled, and can´t wait to mix up ...
Sandboarding i Ica
... helt ubrukelig stopp men vi fikk hvertfall smake paa ca fem forskjellige Pisco produkter. Hoeydepunktet kom naar vi naadde Ica. Her hadde vi en kjapp lunsj foer vi hoppet inn i et stort kjoeretoey som var spesiallaget for aa kunne leke ...
Ica and the south coast
... any mound is man-made by Chincha people. more information about La Centinela and the Chincha people at: http://www.naya.org.ar/peru/lacentinela.htm Box lunch on the bus- 11 am and continuing the drive; another 1.5 hours to Nazca planes in Ica. ...
Ica
... far more likely to engage in small-talk with us. We learned about how people feel and what they think compared to Argentina or Chile. Ica is quite big and frenetic. Also, like in India, is taken over by auto rickshaws, signs and advertising and a general ...
D'Ica a Nasca
... . Payons la chambre et les boissons. Ils oublient de compter la premiere nuit de chane, donc environ 70-80 soles d'economises.. Allons a Ica ou nous mangeons et allons sur internet. Puis prenons le bus a 15h30 pour Nasca. Arrivee a 18h15, on va direct a ...
Day 2: Lima to Pisco
Alan's blog: Day 2 was a travel day - a free morning in Lima and then a long bus ride to Pisco, the home of the Pisco Sour. Lima seems to go on for miles, lots of low buildings, not a lot of wealth. Our hotel, Refugio del Pirato, was outside of ...
Nasca-Linien
... Am Nachmittag fuhren wir dann noch weiter nach Ica. Nasca - die Stadt - hat mir nicht besonders gefallen... aber auch Ica ist nichts wirklich schönes. Wüstenstädte ohne besonderen Charme. Today we arrived early in Nasca and went to the office ...
changing plans
... . We're already not going to make our flight out of Ecuador, because we've been so ill (and still are). It's a shame to be leaving Peru just when it's getting to be what we like: street food, chatty people, that semi-chaos you get in Asia. Not making the ...
28 hours on a bus, a puma and a landslide
... of the journey passes without further incident apart from another 2 hour delay in Ica due to a lady being ill, with some good films (courage cand a film about rachael mcadams ...
Pisco & Sandboarding
... luden kurz unsere Sachen ab und machten uns auf den Weg nach Huacachina. Das ist eine Oase, ca. 10 Minuten Autofahrt von Ica entfernt. Dort genossen wir zuerst die Oase, bevors mit einem Buggie durch die Dünen ging... das war lustig :-) dazwischen ...
Half day Oasis
... and we got to use the facilities of a hostel afterwards! Including swimming pool! We had already decided that we would catch a bus to Ica early in the morning and then catch a bus out later that evening, so the tickets were already bought, but I think ...
Desert Coast
... built around a lagoon. After all the desert I saw in Egypt I wasn’t expecting to be too moved by the desert of Peru, but here the dunes seem larger and steeper and you don’t need to head kilometres and kilometres away from civilisation to see ...
Little oasis of Haucachina
Haucachina (pronounced with the H as a W) is about 5 mins from Ica and is a tiny little town nestled amongst huge sand dunes, with a lake at the center. It really is an oasis in the desert. We spent the night catching up with Emma (Frew's ...
Ica and Huacachina
... great dinner at a little Peruvian restaurant called the Trattoria Novaro and tried some Peruvian red wine from the Tacama bodega in Ica. It was a little disappointing...let´s just say we won´t be bringing any home for you to try.:) We finally ...
Superb Sandbording but Nasca was a waste
Update 5: Superb Sandbording but Nasca was a waste Location: Ica & Nasca, Peru Date: Thurs 30th Nov 06 ICA Sandboarding the extensive coastal sand ranges of Ica was definitely well worth the stop. We stayed in an Oasis town called Huacachina which ...
Ica
Ica for the ruins museum. Pretty shady place even in the middle of the day. Best vegetarian food ...
Matt in Nazca
... about us being stranded in new york for a day and how awesome/not so awesome(not just because we were a day late getting into peru) that was. And im sure my father forgot to mention the fact about all the adults excluding my brother having a few too many ...
Peru
Ica and Huacachina. Huacachina, dubbed as the sand dune capital of the world is a beautiful desert oasis surrounded by massive sand dunes with a central lagoon. Lot's of sandboarding and getting airborne on dune ...
Couchsurfing in Ica
... it in these large terracotta looking vats. Then we went to the tasting room and we tried the wine and pisco. Pisco is Peru's specialty many people drink it as a pisco sour. The wine was very sweet and the vineyard owner had some very creative ways of ...
Hello Pisco!
... vroeg en met mijn gebrekkige spaans kon ik begrijpen dat ze ons ticket omboekte zodat we op dat moment direct de bus (naar Ica namen we aan) konden pakken. Onze tassen gingen onderin met een kaartje en wij stapten in. Onderweg stopten we op verschillende ...
I want to be running when the sand runs out!
... , exploring some gorgeous desert sand dunes!! We left Lima at about 9 am and drove for 6 looongg hours to Ica, a desert in southern Peru. The view from the bus window was fascinating as we watched the landscape gradually change to more and more desert. ...
Mar 27, 2011
July 5th - From Ica!
... process in Perú, and were able to taste some of the wine made and the Pisco, which is said to have been originated here in Ica. I could have done without it, as it was a little too sweet for my taste. After the bodega, we moved on to ...
Huacachina, Oasis in the Desert
... get the chance to break up a bus trip we do, so from Nazca we went to Huacachina, which is a super small town outside of Ica (a large city), to stay the night. It is nestled between huge mountain-like sand dunes and in the center is a small lagoon ...
Sand boarding in Ica
... about it. We arrived at 9am and found a sleepy oasis with thirsty, tired trees and a dirty lake. I had forgotten that we were in Peru. After walking around a little bit and climbing up a dune, a guy offered to take us to the dunes with his 4x4. This was ...