Hostal Salvatierra

... . Our cab driver was nice enough to drive us around seeking other hostels, but alas. All were full. Our second choice, Hostal Salvatierra, also with a pool, was full for the week. We finally ended up at Hostal Rocha, a family-run property. It ...

... Salvatierra, but he said we should check out Hostal Rocha first and if we did not like it he would take us to Hostal Salvatierra. We had a quick look around and it seemed nice enough so we stayed, but in hindsight (seeing Salvatierra the following day) ...

... society of Peru in the forties, now popular with backpackers and the hostels are mostly the old hotels of yesteryear. We chose the Salvatierra which had huge rooms with high ceilings, a nice courtyard and a pool! The bathroom was open-air out the back of ...

... he didnīt go very far at all and was just standing on the board with very little movement!! He He. We went back to the hostal and prepared for more sandboarding and dune buggying!! We were first  to get in the buggy so hopped in the front, and ...

Huachachina is a tiny little village of 200 people in the middle of the desert, built around an oasis in the midst of massive sand dunes. It's so picturesque, it's featured on the back of the 50 soles Peruvian note. It’s located just 10 mins drive ...

We had the one of the best meals so far at an economic restaurant, La Sirena.  The nightlife was whack (it was a Sunday), so we made up for it with ice cream.  Everyone here is constantly eating ice cream, which explains the commonplace spare ...

Stifled in our attempt to get from Pisco to Cuzco all at once thanks to the flood of people buying up the bus seats for the Peruvian Independence Day hollidays, we spent a night in this dune-encircled town just outside of Ica. Not such a bad place to ...

This morning we headed on the local bus (10 soles - $3 each!) to Ica, a town on the Pacific coast of Peru about 2 hours from Nasca. Right outside of Ica is a tiny oasis named Huacachina.  Not even big enough to call it a village, Huacachina is ...

This place is great!!! An oasis in the middle of massive sand dunes that go on for miles. When we arrived, we were informed about an afternoon dune buggy/sandboarding tour that sounded like good fun, so we decided to go for it. It was the first time that ...

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 ...

After a 3 hour bus ride with bingo included we arrived in Paracas to find a hotel and book a boat tour for the next day. Ordered some noodles and found out that in Peru noodles tend to be just spaghetti. Up early on Wednesday morning for the boat ...

We got the bus to Ica, two hours from Nasca and then immediatley took a taxi out to Huacachina, which is an oasis in the middle of the biggest sand dunes I have ever seen in my life. The place was great and the hostel was really nice too, with a ...

It was 2am by the time we finally arrived at our hostel in Lima and gratefully crawled into bed. We slept the sleep of the dead; broken from our marathon 48hr journey from Punta Arenas. We were not quite ready for the big city however so, after a ...

Prekrocil som opat hranicu Bolivia - Peru a onedlho som bol opat v Pune na autobusovej stanici. ROvno som si kupil listok do mesta Ica na pobrezi, pockal asi hodku a uz sa islo. Po par hodinach sme dorazili do Arequipi, kde sme mali asi hodinu prestavku. ...

I wish the title of this entry were true, but I am in the wine valley of Peru, so I think that this is the next best thing.  I am officially travelling by bus now.  There ended up being no motorcycle would be sold to me for $500 or less.  ...

ナスカから2時間、イカに到着。イカからタクシーに乗ってワカチナへ&# ...

Huacachina is located about 15 minutes away from Ica by car. They used to have 7 lagoons in the sand dunes, but after 6 of them dried out over time, now people are artificially adding water once in a while to preserve the last lagoon. Originally, this ...

Sandboarding, Duenenachterbahn, Sonne, Pool... Danke Richi fuehr die entspannte und spassige Zeit! War echt cool! ...

We went off other peoples` advice not to go sandboaring in San Pedro de Atacama but to save it for Huacachina... and they were spot on! I have never seen sand-dunes like it, they were so expansive and the dune buggy riding was absolutely wicked!!  ...