Huacachina Travel and Tourism Guide

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...