Huacachina

The other weekend I took a trip to Huacachina which is 5 hours south of Lima by bus and just right outside of Ica. I went with my friends Ana and Hannah and a bunch of people from this program called APU. APU has international student housing in peru that a bunch of my friends live in so about 50 of us all took this trip together. We got up at 6:30 saturday morning to catch a 9am bus to Ica. From Ica we took a combi about 10 minutes into the desert to this oasis which is Huacachina. Its basically just a pond in the middle the desert.
Once we got to our hostel we settled in, ate lunch then at 4pm went out on dunebuggies. The dunebuggy tour was awesome and we ended up on the top of this series of dunes to do some sandboarding. Sandboarding is kind of like snowboarding, we basically strapped pieces of wood on our feet and went down. The other option was to lay face first on the board and ride it kind of like a sled- this way was a lot more fun and we got going really really fast. You had to make sure none of your skin touched the sand on the way down or it would be shaved off of your body. One girl fell off and really scraped up her body pretty bad.
We went back to the hostel around sundown, and had a cook out with everyone and just hung around the hostel for the night.
The next morning we woke up and tanned out by the beach. It was about 85 degrees and sunny which was nice since i havn't seen the sun in Lima for a month now.
Around 1pm we went back to Ica and took the bus home to lima from there.