As I said, the oasis at Huacachina really is gorgeous - it's exactly like something from a story book, literally picture-perfect really (and it appears on the back of the Peruvian 50-sole note). The weather for our short stay of just 2 nights was great, and the second day we indulged in the main activity - taking a dunebuggy ride through the huge dunes and sandboarding down a few of them.
This desert seemed quite different to the desert in Namibia, mainly I think because the colour here was a far more 'normal' golden shade as opposed to Namibia's red. Anyway the buggy was a big 9-seater and plenty powerful, so you get quite a rush driving down some of the sheer dune-faces. The sandboarding wasn't as good as Namibia though, as the boards only had velco bindings, and so your feet moved around quite a bit. Myself and Sarah only stood up on the boards for one dune (and we were the only ones to even attempt that), but the other 3 dunes we just lay on the boards and slid down. But with the dunes been so large you still managed to build up some amount of speed. One of the other girls with us had a nasty looking tumble at the end of one dune, but she was straight up onto her feet and laughing.
I was going to stay another day and just relax by the lovely refreshing pool at our hostel (Hostel Titanic), but the weather looked a bit misty and so we decided to just head off towards Pisco instead. It was a quick taxi ride to the town of Ica (just 5km away), a quick visit to the museum there and then a quick local bus ride straight to Pisco.
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