Holland & Becky's Travel Blog

Thursday, June 22, 2006

Desert Storm

Sand Boarding and Dune Buggy Tour
Sand Boarding and Dune Buggy Tour,
originally uploaded by Hol Riz.
After travelling for 12 hours by bus. We arrived in Piura Northern Peru and still feeling ill we decided to have chicken (neck) soup...BAD MOVE!! Ontop of her flu poor Becky got savage food poisoning! We got straight on the next bus for 3 hours to Chiclayo before it kicked in but spent the next two days holed up in a hotel room there. At least we had cable TV to watch the footie!

Way over schedule, we blew the budget and flew from Chiclayo to Lima (smelly armpit of a city) and then after watching England beat T&T 2:0 in the bus station. We got a bus down to Ica and then a taxi to Huacachina, a small oasis in the desert surrounded by sand mountains. We stayed in a cool hostel and went on a dune buggy/Sand boarding tour! Cooool! Our driver was crazy and we flew up and down the sand dunes at rollercoaster speeds! Then we stopped to sandboard down big dunes before setting off for more high adrenaline, stomach wrenching sand buggy action! The last dune was a mountain and we went down on the boards on our stomachs...Yikes! Amazing fun.

Next we went to Nazca to do an air flight over the famous lines. The flight was cool and it was great to see the lines though they were smaller than we imagined. Big tick in the tourist box. The woman behind us was sick which wasn´t suprising as the tiny plane was banking left and right with vigorous regularity. Becky was clutching her sick nag but managed to hold her stomach!

Next we set off on the night bus for Arequipa (The white city). And what a bus it was. Bigger than business class plane seats! We slept all the way...

Luv Holland and Becky

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