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After a 2 hour delay, but some free food, we finally we got the night bus from arequipa to nazca at around midnight with our prev group. It was luxury comapred to our previous buses. When I say luxury I mean it was WARM and we got BLANKETS AND PILLOWS :-) and in the morning we even got some breakfast. So travelling with the group has its perks. But also its downfalls. They were staying in wuite an expensicve hotel, but the group leader arranged for us to stay in a hostel for 40 soles which is the equivalent to a tenner for a triple room with a priavte bathroom AND hot water AND very comfy beds. I literally had the best night sleep since I have been here...proabably after being up for 26 hours on friday and a night bus the following night helped me to be so zonked out. Ok I just realised I emntioned downfalls but ahven´t exactly been describing one. Basically we arranged to be picked up to join the group to fly the nazca line. However because peruvians seem to do everything wuite slow we ended up waiting two hours before anyone actaully came to pick us up. And then there was the frustration of being able just use our moblie phones and ring. how did ppl ever survive without them?!
ANYWAY on a more positive note, we got into a tiny 6 man plane to fly the nazca line which was very cool. They are carving in the groiund of many different things such as a monkey, an alien to a spider. They are also a different number of sizes- the largest one measuring over 400m. It was also fantastic to see all the surrounding scenery from the air. They are not sure what the animal figures and geometric shapes mean but there are many theories including that they were used as some sort of agricultural calender to help regulate planting or some even believe they are licked to extraterestrial life. One guy on our plane however didn´t seem to enjoy it as much as he ended up emptying his stomach contents into one of the plastic bags prvided. Admitingly it was a shaky ride and all of us felt a little nauseus once landed but it was definately worth it.
LAst night we went out for pizza with the group which was lovely but decided that we enjoyed the freedom of travelling as a triplet. It so much easier the less people you ahve to take into consideration. So today we decided to amke our own way to huachachina. So a public bus and taxi ride later we arrived in the lovely tranquil oasis nestled among huge sand dunes. Here we found oursleves a nice hostel with a smimming pool so actually got to top upour tans a little here today because it was HOT!! yay finally we felt like we were on a summer holiday :-)
In the afternoon we climbed in to a sand buggy and sped off into the sand dunes...one of the most fun things to do ever!!! The viewes of the sand dunes were amazing...looked like something out of star treck and the bumpiness of the ride just got our adrenalin pumping. We also did a bit more sandboarding like we had done in chile, but this time soph took it upon herself to decend the dune sitting on the sandboard which I have to say looked like a lot of fun as she went very very fast. I attempted to do it the proper way, but faling miserably, descending the dune with my ass in the air, scraping the sand with my fingers, trying not to fall and die. Miranda hoever definately got the hang off it and descending like a near pro.
We have just been to dinner and had a peruvian specialitly. CHicken Saltaldon which was basically rice and then a concotion of chicken pieces, tomato, peppers, onion and chips. We mixed it all together and wolfed it down in about 5 mins because we were all very hungry, having hardly eaten all day.
Tonight we are just going to have an early night to prepare ourselves for the next two days of partying ahead. We are heading up to lima tomorrow to go out with the group because one of the guys is leaving on wednesday.
So we are all off to bed to read our books. ciao for now x
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