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I am in paradise! Huacachina is a small oasis town just outside Ica surrounded by huge sand dunes. It´s boiling hot and we have a hostel with sun loungers and a pool and a bar, so I am almost in heaven. Oh and one shop sells the american grape flavour ice lollies... oh my god!
Yesterday we went on a trip dune buggying and sandboarding, it was brilliant! The buggying was fun, fast and bumpy, and you could hardly open your eyes to see what was happening because of the wind and the sand! The boarding was great and is officially my new favourite thing! They took us to the biggest dunes, we did three on our feet to start with (or rather on our butts!) and then two more, progressively bigger, which we had to go down one at a time on our stomachs! To say that you go fast would be the biggest understatement ever! And one wrong move and you go flying off at god knows how many miles an hour- the dunes were almost vertical! I managed to stay on both times and escaped with only minor cuts on my hands! Some guys got friction burns on their trousers, other people lost the skin on their arms! One girl flew off half way down the highest dune, and everyone was watching at the bottom, it looked so painful, the board hit her in the head, but she was ok! It is the best fun ever though and totally woth the pain. You also get half the desert to take home with you in your shoes for free. And get covered head to toe in sand, which you cant get off because you are also covered in suncream which acts as a very effective glue! I am actually covered now because Pete and I just hired boards ourselves and went again, though this time we didn´t have buggies to drive us up the dunes... walking up them is like level 20 on a stepper, probably harder, and you hardly get anywhere because you step up and your foot sinks back down in the sand! Need the exercise at the mo though so it´s all good!
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