Huacachina Oasis, Ica and The Ballestas Isles
Trip Start
May 27, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 06, 2008
Huacachina,
Peru
Thursday, August 7, 2008
After deciding to go to the Oasis rather than hang around in Pisco, we got a cab to the pan american highway and waited there for one of the frequent local buses, it was a crazy free for all which was quite difficult with big back packs on! but we managed to get on with my bag sat on my knee for the hour journey, not too bad but a little uncomfortable lol! We then got a cab from Ica for the 5min trip to Huacachina, we weren't sure where we were going to stay so when the cab driver suggested Casa Arena we figured we'd give it a go. Not bad at all it was a basic but clean room and the hostal had a bar and a swimming pool, bonus :-)
The day after we got there we booked a dune buggie tour so we could try sand boarding, its an eight seater buggie with a really powerful engine. We jumped in with 5 other people, started chatting to an Aussie behind us who told us the driver we had was loco! he'd been out with him the day before and loved it so much he'd booked again for today, and he was right he was definately crazy. It was great fun these sand dunes are huge and he was driving up and over them like a mad man, it was great! We stopped a few times to go down the dunes on a board which was good fun I got the hang of it eventually, check out the pic!
While we were there we also did the Isla Ballestas trip which was really good. As we went out of the harbour in the speed boat we saw a school of dolphins! as some of you know I've loved dolphins since I was little so finally seeing them in the wild was wicked, the guide said we were really lucky to see them, it was an amazing sight. The Isla's themselves were pretty cool too we saw penguins, sea lions and a huge amount of birds. Considering it cost us about a tenner each it was a pretty good day.
The rest of hte time in Huacachina we spent just chilling by the pool and wandering around the oasis itself, then it was back to Ica to catch a bus to Nasca.
