Huacachina Travel Blogs

If there are cities that never sleep, this city never awakes, hahaha. It wasn't too early, but there was nothing open. Justin went to take a couple of pics and when he came back, he told me the restaurant wasn't working, oh!!! Well, I'm not a breakfast person, but definitely wanted to get some wate…

Because of the earthquake of August 15th 2007 there wasn't accommodation available in Pisco so I stayed in a nice hotel in Huacachina, nearby Ica. When there were enough people to go on board we set off with a speedboat. First we stopped to see the Candelabra the inca's drew this picture …

Rising at 04:20h will never be a my new hobby, but enjoying a whole new country has it's price... This is part of that price.Paying that price continues at "breakfast": we are leaving so early, that the kitchen  of the hotel has not opened yet, nor has the breakfast room - so we have to make d…

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 …

Day 6 Peru – Adventures – April 29th.   Ballesta Islands . – Desert - Sandboarding   Get up this morning for a fine breakfast of bread and bananas and liquid juice. Get on van and pack up and head off to the waterfront to get on a boat to the Ballestra Islands Ba…

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!

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 m…

Huacachina is a tiny oasis village near Ica.  It is a little paradise built up around a natural laguna in the middle of the desert and surrounded by enormous sand dunes.  Checked into the Huacachinero Inn which although slightly expensive was a class apart from anything previous and …

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 coo…

So after a couple days in Lima, I decided I had had enough of the city and got out of there.  Knowing I needed to be in Arequipa for the 15th I got a bus ticket to a small oasis town called Huacachina. No one actually lives there during the year, it exits solely due to tourists and the people …

I took a trip round the world when i finished my studies. Looks like the bug that bit was there to stay.

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 hass…

Doing the Gringo trail

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 sp…

Spent a month in Peru and Bolivia. Started in Lima and went along the coast to Arequipa. Traveled north to Cusco and then into La Paz, Bolivia.