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Huacachina (Peru)

Description: Huacachina is a village in the Ica Region, in southwestern Peru built around a small natural lake in the desert.

Newest Review: ... here en route South, but you can stay here - tourism is the main industry here. As well as palm trees and a lake, it is home to a thriving adventure sport industry - people come here for the sand buggy rides and to try the sand boarding, which cost about US $65 (about £30). Most of our group opted for the adventure tour, but a couple stayed to look at jewellery and to visit a nearby ... more

... museum. ===Sand buggy=== The sand buggies are like skeletal jeeps - all of the doors, roof and hood are missing, replaced with a brightly coloured roll-cage. The tyres are more or less slick. The buggies contain three chairs up front and three raised rear seats...more

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Huacachina (Peru): Sand boarding near an oasis in a vast desert (990 words)
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Huacachina is a tiny village in Peru, containing a famous oasis and for which tourism is the main industry. It is located in the coastal region of Peru, close to Ica, after which the region is named, and is most of a day's drive by bus South of Lima, a similar distance North of Nazca, and is not far from the Pan-American highway, the main route through Peru. The coastal region of the South of Peru is a vast desert. The deserts in this area have several names, depending on the location, but they are all a continuation of the same desert of which the Atacama in neighbouring Chile is the most famous part (famous for being the driest place on the Earth). So the ... Read the complete review

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