We arrive at the ica bus stop at around 18.30 and grab a taxi to huacachina. Our taxi driver is a bit of a lad and sells us a wine tour on the way to our hostel. When we get to huacachina it's really nice. It's like they found an oasis in the middle of the desert and built a small town around the oasis. The town is surrounded by huge sand dunes as well making the whole town enclosed. It's dark by the time we get there and we have a wonder. We go into a bar and ge...

I arrived surprisingly fresh after the night bus, of the 10 hour journey I must have slept 9 of the hours. We check in and they have a room for us already so we dump our bags and bump into hammish and his girlfriend who were at our previous hostel. They tell us about the mirador tower which is a cheap alternative to see the nazca lines rather than getting a $100 plane ride over them. We decide to go there and see why there about. It's only a 20 minute bus journey...

We wake up at around 7ish ready to be picked up at 8. The bus arrives on time, we go outside and are surprised to see... An actual bus. I thought it'd be similar to the salt flats but this tour was on a bus, full, must have been about 30 people on there. We get on and realise around half of the people must be over 50. Not really the tour I had in mind but there ya go. We travel about an hour and a half down the road out of town and arrive at a truck stop thing fo...

Wanting to get straight out of chile we get a bus from Iquique to Arica and immediately get into an organised taxi to Tacna which is just within the Peruvian border. we arrive there about 8 our time but weirdly jump back 2 hours dye to the time difference. We get dropped off in a complete s***hole part of town and check into the first hostel we find. It's an expensive twin room but it has a tv and as we've done our research and found there's nothing here we've al...