Sand Boarding in Huacachina

Bienvenidos a Peru

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September 12th 2011
Soo it´s truly started! We´ve rolled down a Peruvian highway, had some Pisco sours, seen some penguins and bumped across the desert in a sand buggy! Now i´m supposed to tell you how we were squeezed into the corner of a bus full of drug barons, fought of ten of them to reclaim our bags and then walked 20 miles across a desert until we found the lagoon we´re now in. Equally, the sours should o ... read more

South America » Peru » Ica » Huacachina

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Ancient Peru was the seat of several prominent Andean civilizations, most notably that of the Incas whose empire was captured by the Spanish conquistadors in 1533. Peruvian independence was declared in 1821, and remaining Spanish forces defeated in 1... ... read more