More miles of nothing, but sugar cane and asparagus.Sep 22, 2011
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| Huacachina 22/09/11 More miles of nothing, but sugar cane and asparagus. From Trujillo it was a 10 hour bus ride to Lima. We had an hour and a half wait at Cruz Del Sur’s bus terminal. It’s a bit like an airport terminal with gates for departure and arrival, baggage check inn and a café. If there were more bus companies like this in Europe I think that more people would use them. On the trip south from Trujillo we passed fields upon fields of asparagus. Apparently Peru is the number one producer in the world. Once we arrived at Ica we caught a taxi to Huacachina, it was late at night and a welcome stop after a very long trip. First thing the next morning we stepped out of the front door of the hostel, and the first thing we saw was a very tall yellow wall, which actually turned out to be a sand dune. Huacachina is set in the middle of sand dunes. To one side there is the dry desert and on the other side are the dunes stretching for miles into the distance. It was built as a resort for rich Peruvians to come and stay, but know it is a backpacker resort where people forget to go home. The main activity of the area is playing in the in dunes, either trekking to the top or taking a dune buggy ride at sunset and sliding down the dunes. The first day that we were there, we walked up one of the dunes and it took 25mins to climb 400m, it was a serious work out for the thighs. It took 4 big steps to go half a meter. We watched the sun set over the dunes and then rolled, jumped and fell all the way back to the hostel. It took a long time to try and remove the sand from pockets and underwear once at the bottom. The next day we booked on to a sunset dune tour, all of the buggies left about the same time and the sound of all of the V8’s firing up was defining. The tour consisted of charging about the dunes in big dune buggies that could sit 12 people with roll cages, driving up and down really steep slopes and then sliding down the slopes on snowboard looking boards, it was better to lie down on the board than to stand, as you went a lot faster. We watched the sun set and then headed back to town. |
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