Huacachina Hotels

Hola todos, Je ne sais pas qui du rêve ou du voyage est apparu en premier, mais le moment est venu pour moi de prendre mon sac à dos afin de voir ce qu'il se passe dans le continent sud-américain. 8 mois, c'est court et long - mais vous pourrez ...

... hurtle down and fill every crevass of their body with fine dust, whilst trying desparately not to break their legs.  Most hotels in Huacachina have a swimming pool, and ours was no different, only it had a funny tinge of green to it and most people ...

We took an overnight 12-hour bus from Arequipa to get to Ica. From Ica, our next destination - a tiny pretty lagoon Huacachina - was just 10 minutes away. We arrived in this little paradise not knowing what to expect and it turned out to be amazing. ...

... walls of sand, hundreds of feet high.  It is by far the most surreal place that we've visited.  People visit Huacachina for one reason - the sand dunes- to ride dune buggies and go sand boarding.   That afternoon, we paid ...

... and 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ;     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 Peru´s second ...

... formen el viento que sopla por estas tierras las transporta detrás de la cordillera de los Andes. Por la noche nos fuimos a Huacachina, un oasis en el medio del desierto donde se han construido unos pequeños hotelitos y famoso entre los aficionados del ...

... gonna have 4 goes!  Wicked afternoon though. Unfortunately, time being as it was, we couldn’t spend another night in Huacachina.  Most people go straight from Cusco in the deep south, to Mancora in the far north, which must be about 48hrs ...

... it looked almost fake.  There's nothing around but sand and then all of a sudden theres a little lagoon, some trees and a few hotels and restaraunts.  I love it here!  The way down was a lot more fun. It didnt take any effort, you ...

Huacachina, *****, Friday 27th-28th April, 2007...no globalization..Not even a bank in this place An absolutely fabulous little resort town whose landscape is dominated by giant sand dunes and whose restaurants and hotels overlook a murky lagoon. ...

    Réveil 3h30. Oula un peu tôt: Une petite douche pour se sentir plus frais, une petit peu de guide du routard et tentative de sommeil, plutôt de la sieste entrecoupée. On va essayer d'être en forme car la journée va être longue: ...

... [cigarettes and alcohol].             I didn’t hear a single [songbird] in Huacachina.             When I went to bed I could still feel a ...

... in Ecuador or Mancora) with no luck. We even had a car so we could drive through each little town. Fortunately we found Huacachina - a lagoon oasis right in the middle of a massive set of sand dunes (some of the biggest in the world, in the biggest ...

... night, even though we had to up for 6.30am to get a taxi to the bus station.  All in all our little stay at Huacachina was a fun diversion and even relaxing to some degree, with a lot of doing nothing in a place that was really the first truly warm ...

... Kiri & Rachel and shortly afterwards Adam and Flor turned up, and that afternoon we set off for the one activity Huacachina has to offer, sandboarding. Theoretically sandboarding is just like snowboarding, but instead of ski lifts, you get to the slopes ...

... manage to book ourselves on a trip out to the islands for the next day and combine it with sand boarding and dune buggying in Huacachina, which is basically the name of a small oasis in the middle of the Peruvian desert where you can hit the dunes. ...

... next morning that we were actually in the middle of the Peruvian desert amonst huge sand dunes!  Huacachina is an oasis with hotels, restaurants etc built around it. The main reason people come here is to do the sandboarding and bugging. ...

... which was a popular tourist destination in the area and even appeared on the back of the Peruvian S/50 banknote.   Huacachina was literally a desert oasis and consisted of a small cluster of houses, hotels and restaurants set around a small lake ...