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Ica… So Much Sand to Play With…
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 24 January 2011
The key bonus I can see for going on holiday around Ica and Nazca is that you will never have to worry about what to do on a rainy day. They get rain so rarely that good holidaying weather is a pretty safe bet whatever time of year you go to visit. We headed to [...]
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Just hurtling through. Huacachina, Peru
Blog: Chronicles of a year-long break-up - 27 September 2010
It’s not hard to see why Huacachina was once upon a time a playground for the rich and famous. A postage-stamp sized resort town, it is no more or less than two parallel streets which circle around a swampy lagoon. What is memorable about Huacachina is its location, plonked right at the centre of an [...]
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Classic Curry Competition
Blog: No Hurry Curry - 30 May 2010
5/20/10: Huacachina, Peru [Editor's Note: Once again give a nice round of applause to one of our favorite guest posters, Steve Curry.] For the first time in my life, my day began on an overnight bus. And for a time in the thousands, it began to an alarm going off. Unfortunately, it was not my [...]
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第六十七天：沙漠中滑翔
Blog: Diaries of a Vagabonding Couple - 23 April 2010
Huacachina - 沙漠中的綠洲 今早我們離開利馬往 Ica/Huacachina，那裡有沙漠和小綠洲。重臨沙漠，這次我們不靜態地欣賞她，我們在這裡滑沙！最初對這玩意一頭霧水，老是有種太勉強的感覺，就像有了跑馬活動都不夠，人們硬要加跑狗的項目... 後知後覺的我又在刺激事件簿上添了新一頁！Sand-boarding 與 snow-boarding 或 volcano-boarding 都不同，不企不坐，是整個人俯身在板上滑下去！戴上墨鏡，睜開眼睛看到自己近距離地滑下極斜沙坡，誰說不過癮?! 沙漠四驅車 還有還有，載我們玩樂的司機也很識趣，知道我們愛刺激，經常在沙漠中高速上落穿梭，令我們猶如置身於過山車上！ 紅日給沙漠添上神秘感 自 volcano-boarding 的小意外後，論盡的我又在施展能人所不能的奇技 -- 明明好端端的滑下去，我卻四肢不協調釀成"炒車"收場
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Huacachina - 10 people, sand boards and a V8
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 15 April 2010
There is a small oasis not far from the town of Ica, Peru called Huacachina. A visit to an oasis is well worth it if you haven't experienced much desert before, but once you've seen the tranquil green lake surrounded by touristy buildings which are in turn surrounded by sand dunes, there is a way to liven things up a bit; Dune buggies!
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Dune Buggying – Huacachina
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 15 April 2010
Wooohoooooo! This, I think, may be one of the most fun things I have ever done in my life. I thought it would be exciting, but really I was mostly excited about seeing the incredible sand dunes that set off Ica and the surrounding area so nicely. I have never seen desert like this, not [...]
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Our 6 month anniversary!
Blog: Hecktic Travels - 26 February 2010
It's been a while, but I am taking a turn writing a blog post. Given that we are speeding through new cities, there is not much opportunity for me to fulfill my end of our arrangement (I cook, Dalene writes!), so I'm giving her a break to let her creative mind re-energize. Our three nights in Huacachina were exactly what the doctor ordered. After our helluva trekking trip, ugly bus ride, and Dalene's not-so-fun birthday, we arrived in our oasis,
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Fun in the desert
Blog: One Year+ of Vagabonding through Latin America - 30 November 2009
Four hours south of Lima lies the Ica desert, a moonscape of surreal sand dunes. Paleontologists know this area for the fossilized bones of gigantic whale-eating sharks, sea sloths, and other long extinct marine animals. Oenologists know the region for its vineyards, planted by the Spanish in the 16th century. Hundreds of bodegas (the other use [...]
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My 3 Best Kept Travel “Adventure” Secrets
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 21 November 2009
We were recently nominated to participate in Tripbase’s “3 Best Kept Travel Secrets” game by our great Twitter friend, Isabelle of @IsabellesTravel. So here are our Travel Adventure Secrets. The Pinnacles of Borneo, The White Desert of Egypt and Huacachina Peru. These destinations on 3 different continents are some of our favorite adventures. Enjoy these photos and an overview of what exactly each one is about.
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A Quick Break in the Oasis of America
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 4 November 2009
By Josh Wilcox, KF9 Peru Taking a brief recess from borrower profiles and repayment schedules at Kiva’s MFI pilot partner Caja Rural one weekend in Ica, Peru, I escaped to visit the small town of Huacachina, the “oasis of America”, located just a few miles outside the sandy metropolitan hub of Ica. Having become famous for [...]
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Highlights of Latin America
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 1 November 2009
I had such an awesome time in Latin America it’s pretty hard to pick out favourite moments. But I’m going to give it a go anyway. Here are the best things I’ve seen and done over the past six and a half months, along with links to what I originally wrote about them. Favourite City: Valparaiso, [...]
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Sandboarding at the oasis
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 9 September 2009
As has so often been the case on this trip, it’s the unexpected pleasures that turn out to be some of the fondest memories. Huacachina is definitely a place to fall into that category. Just south of Pisco along the Panamericana sits Ica, which is surrounded by a desert landscape with some of the world’s biggest [...]
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