Hostal Sol de Ica

... a common vacation spot for rich Peruvians so there are a couple of really nice old hotels, and boats to be rented on the little lake. Of course, we had no time for that. <br><br>We practiced sandboarding in the morning, hiking up the ridge to the tops of the dunes and then figuring out how the ride differed from snowboarding. We quickly learned a few lessons: Alot of wax on the ...

... eigenlijk leuker dan al sukkelend proberen te sandboarden. Na deze duin was het tijd voor het echte werk en trokken we al racend met de dune-buggy over de zandbergen. Dit was spectaculairder dan de rollercoasters in Walibi (of is het Six Flags tegenwoordig?). Deze laatste duin was nog een stuk hoger dan de vorige. We stonden dan ook in een minimum van tijd beneden aan de zandberg. 't was een echte aanrader, veel leuker dan paragliden en ongetwijfeld ...

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... to give us a lift to the top of the dune... but they dont do that... they either take you got a crzy hour tour of being driven around until you puke up and over the dunes... or DIY! - we asked the lady where the small slopes were, and off we went... we really looked the part...board under our arms, stomping throught he sand in our boots!<br><br>We started to walk up a dune...and I got in a mood because every step I took, I sunk 2 steps... I blamed Al of course.... and perservered ...

... Restaurant Mayo serves more for breakfast than for lunch, though we did manage to get hairs for free in the food and lots of flies to add to the ambiance. Believe it or not, we loved the weather and the scenery. The dunes were always in the background and they made you feel close to the sky. Sandboarding was a slight disappointment, only slight since it didn't cost much. I heard the buggy ...

... that because of it's higher (16%), but hardly noticeable, alcohol content, nine months after the bottles are first opened there is a rush of babies in the town. The Cachina is also known as "young wine" and is the fermented wine that is then distilled into pisco. It wasn't particularly remarkable in taste, but was just neat to try for what it was. After the tasting we were standing around and Luke and I started talking to this guy who was there, assuming he was an employee. He ...

... on your **** if you´re me) and then have to trek all the way back up again. Exhausting! I wasn´t very good and got pretty frustrated, having never really been taught any technique, I kept falling over comically when I got too fast. There were also some locals who were ludicrously good and kept boarding down the dune and doing jumps with ease. Grrr. I also foolishly decided to take my camera out with me; I got some lovely photos as the sun was setting, but the ...

A long time ago in the country that would become Perú lived a people called the Nazca with amazing powers of seeing the future. They could see that Perú would one day become a major tourist destination with highlights in Cuzco, Puno, and Arequipa. But, they thought, there will be nothing of interest along the coast! So they went into the desert and began removing stones in the patterns of animals, revealing the different-coloured earth beneath them and ...

... down. At le*st it distr*cted me from the other p*in. After being given * prescription for strong *nti-infl*mm*tories *nd given receipts for everything, I w*s sent on my w*y.<br><br>Me *nd Cl*ire then got * t*xi to go *nd s*y goodbye to Tom who w*s *t the Cruz del Sur bus termin*l *cross town with Nicki. Once he h*d dep*rted, we h*d * trip to * ph*rm*cy to get my drugs, then went to *nother shop to stock up on sh*mpoo *nd other such necessities ...

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 Pisco in a small village on the Bay of Paracas. Had a great dinner in a local restaurant and talked late into the evening on the upper terrace of the hotel. <br>