Ramblings

Alright so we went from Lima to Huacachina, took about 5 hours or so. Hung out in Lima, cleared our Visas for Brazil, got into Huacachina at night.

Huacachina is about 5 minutes from Ica, the main city. Really, it’s just a hub for other places (I’ve heard Ica kindve blows dick). Anyways the main thing to do in Huac is sand boarding/riding on the sand buggies (sp?). The place we stayed at was pretty nice, had a large pool…overall, Huac is pretty tiny though and it’s sortve a quick stop in the grand scheme of things.

Sand boarding and buggy riding were fucking awesome…the buggies were totally crazy, driving along the dunes was so awesome…it was like a roller coaster. The dunes went on for miles, some were really tall as well.

I fucking sucked when it came to sandboarding…my friend and group mates were better than I, maybe because they knew some snowboarding or something…with that said, my friend called sand boarding “way different than snow boarding” so who knows.

I have some videos that I want to upload later on as well, videos of the riding/the overall landscape/etc…I’ll have to wait until I have better internet though.

Me running up a huge dune-

Pic of the Sand buggie things-

I sucked ass at sandboarding so I went on my stomach…it’s pussier but whatever. You end up hauling huge ass when you go down like this.

So that was fun. We took a bus to Nazca after showering. There was a ton of sand in our shoes.

Nazca is a very small town known for the Nazca Lines, huge lines drawn into the land for unknown purposes.

Overall it was pretty cool, though, nothing totally extreme or out of this world. I think my friend and I shared the same opinion in that it was cool (and probably essential while in Peru), but probably is dwarfed in comparison to something like Machu Picchu (on the cool scale). It was a bit difficult to see some of the lines and I definitely didn’t take good pictures of all of them.

Some pics-

Anyways, that recaps the last few days. I’m really excited to go to Cuzco, seems like there’s a ton to do there. Lots of hikes/rafting/rock climbing…I’m still on the fence of whether to do this insane 360 foot bungee jump…so we’ll see. 15 hour bus ride in a bit here though…fml.