Ica - huaccachina
Trip Start
Nov 03, 2008
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Trip End
May 13, 2009
Ica,
Peru
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Yup we´re still on Tuesday here. We landed in Ica after 3 hours of a bus journey. We were gutted that they turned off Babylon A.D. (A Vin Diesel movie, arguably his greated work - I didnt realise he was fluent in Spanish!) with 15 minutes to go and so we broke out into a rendition of Molly Malone. I think the locals thought it was some sort of protest.
Dunes at Huaccachina
Huaccachina is about 5 k outside of Ica, an oasis in the desert and home to the biggest sand dune in the world or so they claim. Peruvians seem to claim alot of the biggest deepest
Another glorous view
titles but a quick search on the interent usually seems to throw up a believable counter-claim. That doesn´t make it any less impressive and this continent seems to have no end to the mose extreme.
Brendan getting to grips with his board
Put simply dune buggying here should be a mandatory life experience! I tried to put up a video here as photos just wont get the message across but the connection is too slow to do it. Sand boarding I didn´t think much of,
View from the deep end
difficult, slow and the novelty wears off quickly unless you´re good at it, which I am most certainly not. This coupled with the fact my camera packed in as I got sand in it on one of my stints down a dune made it a slightly dissappointing
The crew
experience. I was unable to capture the amazing sunset, maybe I can steal some of Brendans photos later. A remarkable day was polished off with an all you can eat and drink BBQ. 
