Huacachina

It was a cloudy morning so we couldn't lie by the pool as planned but just hung around until our 12:30pm bus to Ica (35S; Cruz del Sur).

We were given an unexpected and tasty lunch on the bus...well the main bit was, the other bit had a whole egg in it and reeked and the dessert was some rubbery thing even Anna wouldn't touch. The scenery wasn't all that...far off mountains and 'rubble-like' landscape. I concentrated on the movie which was pretty dull and fell asleep.

Two hours later we arrived; they'd put our bags to Lima so took a while to get them off. Then I had to search for an ATM which took a while but gave me a brief view of Ica - busy and noisy.

Then we hopped into a taxi to drive us the 10 mins to Huacachina (6S), which is an amazing oasis in the middle of huge sand dunes. It's strange to know such an isolated little place is just a stones throw away from a big town.

I guarded the bags whilst Anna went hostel shopping. She soon found one with a pool so we looked no further - Hotel Curasi (140S).

We wandered around the lake which was packed with locals seeing as it's the weekend, then had dinner at Desert Nights (67S), a cheaper hostel - veggie noodles for me, burger and chips for Anna. Neither of us could finish the huge portions but we did have room to share an ice cream!Read more