Ocucaje Sun & Wine Resort Ica

... with chocolate. Because the wine is a mixture of grape juice and pisco we were not tempted to buy it. The pisco was not that good either so we just bought a bag of chocolates. <br><br>Later that day we went with a dune-buggy to the desert to go for sandboarding. The view in the desert was amazing and the sandboarding was quit tough. At first we could try at a small hill. After some tries it was enough for our guide and we went to a steeper hill ...

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... to celebrate not breaking a bone... and mr cockroach not visiting during our shower!)<br><br>Early start the next morning, and we headed to Pisco and Paracas... I think I had a little hangover (although its been so long, I dont really remember what they are!)... I am gtting too old for sore head the day after nice cocktails! - they shouldnt make them so big! LOL<br><br>Penguins, sealions and sea nextt (I hope)... and this wasnt the relaxing day it was going to be...but it was a lot of fun!

... that offers dune buggy rides and sandboarding. We have to take it on. The climb up the sand dunes was intense but we ripped it up of course! Haha.<br><br>Back to Ica for the night, a crazy town of traffic and moto taxis everywhere and no apparent road rules.

... supercharged buggys over sanddunes, plunging them into deep sandy voids and up the other side. It was like being on a roller coaster, but without knowing quite where the tracks were leading to.<br> <br>Having driven to the top of one particularly large 30 metre dune we stopped, got out and were told this was the "practice run" area for our sandboarding. Practice run? This looked more like being at the top of an Olympic slalom run, not the sedate dune we thought ...

... way to drink pisco, so that you only end up with the fruit flavor in your mouth and not the residual alcohol. First you sniff the pisco and inhale deeply, then you drink the shot, keeping it in your mouth for 3 seconds, and after you swallow you exhale fully. <br><br> After that tasting we had lunch at El Catador, and then had Jaime and Carlos take us to Huacachina, which was to be our home for Saturday night. There they hooked us up with a hostal (which proved to be a little ...

... s not difficult!<br><br>After this we went back to the hotel to check out by midday, then sit by the pool dor a bit. Nicki decided to pester the parrot and after encouraging it onto her hand it decided to scuttle all the way up her arm and start to peck her hair. Bloody funny. After she´d finally got it down a few minutes later it sidled up to me, stole my pen and, holding it in one claw, began pecking at it manically. I wanted to take some photos. It was then ...

... br><br>We take off and head for the first line of interest. Our affable pilot Manuelo puts the plane into a steep bank and shouts into our headsets "there's the whale, under the right wing!" I look, but the desert is crossed with tracks and I can't make a whale out of any of them. Lines made by cars in the 1920s still appear on the desert floor as it is so dry here. Then, I see it, clear as a day, a whale, but it's smaller than I thought. try to take a ...

... s*id *nim*l *nd clothes m*de from its fur, *nd the f*ct th*t my n*me is Al.<br><br>After dinner we pl*yed c*rds for * bit then went b*ck to the hostel. Brilli*ntly no one new h*d moved in *nd we h*d the whole nine bedroom dorm to ourselves. I got my iPod *nd spe*ker out *nd pl*yed some tunes from my DJ booth (* top bunk-bed) while the girls listened *nd g*zed in *we *nd *dor*tion, while spor*dic*lly performing * biz*rre foot d*nce. Then we went to bed.

... we looked especially cool today. After about 20 minutes of bumping around the dunes we got the chance to go sand boarding. <br><br>While planning the trip I'd read multiple blogs cautioning against sand boarding because of its high speeds--but it seemed that everyone had tried it anyway. It also seemed that most people gave sand boarding a shot by laying belly down on the board and going head first down the dune. Our guide tried explaining ...