Ana_Ica & Huacachina, Peru

The bus ride wasn’t bad at all; other than I had a still had that annoying headache.

Ica is known for producing wine and Peru’s drink, Pisco. But nearby only 3km is the oasis of Huacachina, which is known for dune buggy rides and sand boarding. We took a taxi to Huacachina. I’ve never seen so much sand in my life, sand everywhere, huge sand mountains around the oasis. It felt like we were in our own resort. Nice! The place we stayed the first night sucked. It just had a bad vibe, the rooms were not the cleanest and the bathroom sucked. No toilet seat. Handy!

We walked around the oasis, which literally takes only 5 minutes. We found another hostel for cheaper and nicer it had a pool and everything. So we made the reservation for the next day. My headache was still there and my body was aching at this time. Didn’t feel horrible but enough to slow me down. We walked around so more to find out about the dune buggy rides. They’re all about the same price around $12 USD each for two hours. Not bad! But feeling how I was the sound of a bumpy ride didn’t sound like fun.

The next day I felt sick too. So we decided to wait two more days. Yesterday, I felt much better. We came to Ica to walk around the town and visit a local winery. We finally saw how the make pisco. It’s actually from the grapes and then they distilled it to make it white looking. It’s quite the process. They still had the old “Lagares” where men actually use to crush the grapes with their feet for hours to drain the juice out of it. Then the juice would go to another place where they’d filter the skin and then later would put it in a jar looking thing. They seal it for 25 days and then take it to an underground pot for days. The pisco has three parts the head, the body and the tail. The only good part is the body. The rest has too much alcohol. The body only has 43% alcohol. After the small tour we had a taste of the different wines and pisco. Good stuff! Strong too!!! They also had mango juice. Mangos grow everywhere in this town. YUMMY! I love mangos.

We then came back to town to have some lunch. Again Chinese!!! Tim found this Chinese restaurant and his hooked! He’d eat every meal there if possible. It was pretty good but every time I’d eat it I’d burp the food. Not so good!!!! Tim think is because he likes than I don’t like it. But I tell him if he’d be burping it he’d like either.

Around 4ish we went back to Huacachina. We decided to book the dune buggy ride for today Sunday. We also rented a sand board to try it before today. I must say it was pretty fun, even though I can’t do it. I did sand board for about 4ft. without falling on my butt. I was scared at first, what else is new I’m such a chicken but I manage to always try it at least once. The rest of the time I kept sand sliding, that was a blast too.

We’ll see about today!!!