Princess Hotel Ica

... stairs on our terrace and then in our room and there was a lot of dirt lying on our lamp. We already payed our stay so we didn't want to leave, the only other option was to ask for another room. The shower in our new room was as dirty as the other shower but at least the room was cleaner and people could not come on our terrace. Luckily we brought our own sleeping bags so we didn't need to use the blankets of the hostal. It was very warm in our room and ...

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... The laguna stank a bit like mouldy fish **** and it had it`s usual share of rowing boats and kitsch pedalos to match. We stopped for a well needed drink and Nicki ordered up a fish-bowl full of rum and coke called a Bomba de Cerese The glass was almost as big as half of her head and she began to smile crazily at me after half of it. I decided to join her in the bowl and we both stumbled off like goldfish into the ...

... 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.

Back to Ica for the night, a crazy town of traffic and moto taxis everywhere and no apparent road rules.

... 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 ...

... 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.

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 ...

... a bit at Desert Nights, a hostel across the other side of the oasis where we use the internet all the time, after we also had breakfast there. Their food is lovely and really good value. then attempted some sunbathing but it was too chilly and we decided to go and rent boards and do a bit of sand-boarding. Sand-boarding without the aid of a dune-buggy to take you to all of the dunes is bloody hard work. You spend ages climbing to the top of a dune, go down it ...

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 ...

... an hour away. The previous day we told our tour guide in Lima that we´d be staying at the Double Tree and his jaw dropped. ¨Wow!¨he said, ¨the next time you travel you should invite me. That place is great!¨ His reaction set our expectations but we never imagined we'd find what we did. The hotel was sheer paradise. It had a minimalist Balinese-style decor complete with ocean view and four eternity pools. There is no way to describe it. There ...

... for an eternity. When she closed them, two things happened: 1) she went faster and 2) the backend started rolling around to the front like a japanese compact car drifting. The result, 5 full rotations, sand in the face, sand in the ears for days (she's still cleaning out grains as I type), and a sore shoulder. Honestly, when I saw the whole thing happen (I went first so was waiting at the bottom), I nearly cracked up BUT the most awesomest ...