Huacachina is a tiny oasis town near Ica, in the coastal earthquake zone of Peru. We were back in the land of sunshine! It has a small lagoon surrounded by massive sand dunes and palm trees, just beautiful.
All the hostels have pools and are pretty partyish so we didn´t get a lot of sleep at ours.
The 1st night there we met back up with pals Emma and Jules and had a few too many campfire beers. Jules sang us some amazing songs he´s been penning, and Ed got to do his pyromaniac thing again too.
We climbed up the sand dune behind our hostel to watch the sunset, on the evening of our 10th anniversary. A painful experience! (the walk up, not the 10 years). It took about half an hour of walking, feeling like you were swimming upstream. The view and the atmosphere up there ws amazing, and coming back down was much more fun than going up especially after a bottle of wine. You could run down like you were walking on the moon, doing massive elongated strides, because the sand stopped you from going too fast.
Then for Ed´s big 30 we went out in the dune buggies and sand-boarding. First of all they tear around the dunes in the buggy. It is just like being on a roller coaster except you get a lot of sand in your face. Absolutely one of the most fun things we have ever done. The sand boarding is not at all scary once you try it, but when you are face down at the top it looks pretty hairy. I was only able to manage it on my front but check Ed out below standing up, snowboard style.
Yes that is HP sauce and eggy bread (french toast for the posh readers). A big thanks to Beth and Ryse at the Bamboo cafe. We had great food everyday there and they were so fantastic on the night of Ed´s birthday. They had a supremely cute little girl called Jasmine and a load of kittens so it was a nice place to hang out.
For Ed´s birthday we went down to the Bamboo cafe and had dinner and Beth and Reece, who you can see below with Ed and I, even made him a big chocolate brownie birthday cake. We had a campfire with toasted marshmallows and fireworks too. The Irish girls (Sandra, Mel and Etaoin) were there along with 2 new chums we met called Nico and Carlos.
After dinner we went out in Huacachina and ended the night in the ONLY club there. Lets just say there was a lot of RRRRRReagaton. (Reagaton is a funny but very popular music in Bolivia and Peru. It is pretty dirty, google Daddy Yankie and you will see what we mean)
Nico bought Ed a Jaegerbomb. How very 18 year old!
The above was after the jaegerbomb. I am not entirely sure what they are doing but it definitely involves taking the p*ss out of the very camp guy in the Perfect 10 T shirt. All in all a great night.
A more random moment of our week was on a trip to Ica, the nearest town, where we were acosted in the street by a load of Peruvian schoolkids to help with their homework. ¨Hey gringos¨was shouted across the street at us so we kinda knew something was up. When we agreed to help, we found ourselves being videoed whilst answering questions about what we liked and disliked about Peru. Being South Americans they were totally disorganised and had no questions prepared so we wrote them for them too. It was kinda embarrassing with all the Peruvians watching us speak crap Spanish on camera, but funny! Then came the obligtory photo with the gringos of course. We got an email thanking us and saying their project went well. Glad we could be of help!
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