Our bus to Cusco was booked for 9.45 do we had a whole day to kill. We wanted a lay-in as our day trip was not until 2.30, but the tour guide knocked on our door last night and moved it to 8am. Waking up with a coffee and wearing all the clothes from yesterday, we were picked up at our hostel in the sand buggy. en route we picked up a Chinese family. 15minutes out of town we went off road.

The only house we passed on the dirt track had a small dog out side that looked ready to do something as we passed. The dog slowly cross the track and as soon as we passed proceeded to race the buggy, sprinting as fast as he could..... It was hilarious!! I was in fits, while hanging out the side of the buggy cheering him on!!!... It wasn't long before the dog gave up and the dirt track turned into large dunes and huge troffs.

Our loco driver was encouraged to go faster over the dunes, with the cheers and screams of the Chinese group.

We stopped at Cahuachi an old Nazca settlement. Our guides daughter (who could speak English) explained that the chief of the village a holy man lived in the largest building in the centre and the satellite buildings was where the villagers lived.
She also explained that they were connected to the Nazca lines in some way and the people who built this settlement may have created the lines.

We all climbed back into the buggy and headed to the cemetery of chauchilla to see mummified remains. When we arrived a selection of bones and pottery where neatly piled. It looked so staged for the tourists and the bones where so white they looked fake.

It wasn't until I asked loads of skeptical questions and the guide explained the true situation.

Peruvian archeologist excavated this cemetery looking for riches or extordonary historical artefacts, but instead of carefully dealing with the bones they just ripped them up!!! Looking around from the neatly placed remains of skulls and other skeleton remains the whole area was littered with bones. It was a horrible sight. I told the guide it was appalling!!! The reason the bones were so well preserved was because of the climate. Then to top it off in the bushes they showed us a mummified baby, you could see its protruding spin from the back. The guide casually saying 'take a picture' no thank you!! We both cross ourselves and leave.

Morbid part over we head off to do more Sandboarding!! The sand dunes get bigger and deeper. Which only encourages our driver to drive more erratic. We are burning up 45° inclines then flinging over the top to go down 70° declines. The only thing that is comforting is the Limp Bizkit sound track in the background. We eventually get lodged on the crest of a hill. The guide makes it look like he has done it on purpose. Time for Sandboarding!!!!!

We arrive a Cerro Blanco the worlds highest sand dune at 2078m. I strap up first more confident this time. The dune is huge. No fear, I head down! Fear quickly returns. I remain composed and have a good ride. Only falling at the bottom. My only fall of the day, I become quite good. Stevie on the other hand has many tumble. Lacking the confidence of yesterday. The only downer was walking/trying to walk up the huge dunes when we got to the bottom. We headed back around 1pm to Nazca and had a hot shower before heading out for lunch. We ordered a hamburger and chips, that is exactly what we got. No Bun!!!! We then looked around the Sunday market. Purchasing a memory card to back up our photos. We send the rest of the evening packing up and backing up.....
....when it was time to check out of our room, some German guy was complaining so we ended up standing around for ages talking to several staff before one of them just ushered us to go, but we still needed to pay for the accommodation. They couldn't understand so we very slowly walked out the door, quickly picking up pace before they realised. We had dinner before finally boarding the bus to Cuzco....