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So after all our trips to and fro Huacachina, we have decided on something important, getting that bloody holiday tan, so when we fly home (9DAYS AND COUNTING) we will look fresh and travelled.  So we spent most of yesterday out by the pool gaining a little red colouring.  We also spent most the morning sandboarding once again, but this time for only 3quid!! so we thought bugger it, why not, we got chatting with a girl from Nottingham on the dune buggy, her name was Louise and was s...

What a relief to leave Lima behind!  As soon as I got on the bus to take me south to Ica and Huacachina I felt everything lighten, my mood and my mental state.  Lima has been different this time. It’s much nicer in the summer, but even still, as the bus rolled through the outer suburbs and then squatters settlements and shanty areas of the extreme outskirts of Lima, and then into the unpopulated desert, I felt that it’s just not the place for me.  Staying in Lima would be t...

In november I made a roundtrip in Peru for about three weeks. I started in Lima, than travelled further to Ica, Huacachina, Nazca, Arequipa and Puno. The last places were Cusco and the mysterious city of Machu Picchu

The bus from Lima dropped us in Ica, which is about 10mins cab ride from Haucachina. In Ica thay have these little 3 wheeled taxi that take you around the town (see the pictures), i wanted one of these but we ended up getting in a crappy little mazda or something after the diver wouldn´t stop hassling us. Very disappointing. Huacachina is a small town that surrounds an oasis in the middle of some fairly significant sand dunes. From the outside the town looks very impressive, however once y...

Huacachina is a oase in the desert. By taxi it is about 10 minutes from Ica. The one of the billets of Peru shows this place, but in real it is much nicer. In the center is a big pond and around are palmtrees and some hostels. You can walk the sanddunes, ride in desert buggies and go sandboarding!

We booked a sand boarding tour today, was wicked fun! Basically it involves jumping in a buggee and roaming the sand dunes through the desert. We also got to sand board and it was terrifying at first because they are pretty steep and you go down on the board head first and pick up some serious speed! It was so awesome. The tur went for about 1 hour or so, we thought it was 2 hours but it was enough. The buggee was pretty fun aswell because the guide takes you over some rollercoaster-scary b...

Doing the Gringo trail

For my second time in Latin America I went to visit friends in Peru and Chile, it was a lovely period of the year. Very different experiences, shows how different a Latin American country can be from another one.

Huacachina was a lovely place to stay - relaxed, loads of sun, surrounded by sand dunes - especially as a contrast to Lima.  It´s a really small place in the middle of a desert, but has a fairly large lakeght in the middle of it, hence its decription as a desert oasis. Our hostal was really classy, including a swimming pool and assorted pets including a number of parrots one of which decided to empty its bowels on my shorts (which was nice).  This was the first time on my trip tha...

This is my blog of all the places I have been, I have tried to include as much as I can but am sure there will be loads I have missed. Please feel free to comment or email. I hope you enjoy! Photos and Videos coming soon

An Oasis in the Desert....... Go there for Sand Boarding and hammering around the dunes in buggies. I teamed up with ol mate Daryll from the bus. A few hours in the sun out on the dunes was easily enough. The buggies hammer, no air to report but some good sideways action. The sand boarding is cool, very similar to snow boarding in slushy conditions. Never had so much sand in my mouth, pockets, ears, nose.... Thank god the hostel had a pool, bar and chilled out gardens, all in the midd...

South America

Here you can join us on our motorcykle tour from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (south america). We start our journey May 27, 2006 and we will be on the road for about a year! Read our complete story at our homepage: www.tobias-ingeborg.com

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Talked a buddy of mine into going down to Peru for month. Lived with a family in Cuzco for a week while studying spanish then took off on an adventure that eventually led us deep into Bolivia and up through Chili. I can't say I learned all that much Spanish, but I made it back, so I guess that says something!