Huacachina

Got back yesterday from an awesome weekend away in Huacachina. We left on Friday afternoon after volunteering and took the five hour bus ride to Ica. From there we caught a cab into Huacachina to go sandboarding!

The town itself was incredible. It was an Oasis and only 25 people actually lived there, the rest lived in Ica and would just come during the day to work at the Hostels, etc. We just lazed by the lagoon all morning, as you can see in photo´s and decided to be brave and swim in there too.

On Saturday afternoon we booked in our sandboarding trip and went out in a Dune Buggy and it was INSANE. They drove so, so, so fast. Upa nd down the hills, it was like the Dune Buggy defied gravity when we just fell off some of the hills. I was very grateful for being strapped in and for having a roll cage over my head. It was literally like going on a crazy rollercoaster, just with no tracks. The sandboarding itself was an experience too. I was way, way, way too scared to stand up and go, which is understandable as everyone knows how great my balance is. The first ´baby´ hill was pretty big, so instead we went down on our stomachs which was scary enough. We found a smaller hill and a few of us had a turn at standing up which was good fun, but that was enough for me! For the rest of the hills we all went down on our stomachs because the hills just got bigger and bigger. You would look down at it and think how crazy it is to go down, so our instructor would just push us and it was great fun.

That night we decided to go on a wine tasting tour which was one of the most bizarre things I have ever seen. The wine tasting was in this night club, we just went underneath the night club where there where hundreds of ceramic jugs full of wine, with dead, stuffed animals balanced on top throughout. We tasted about four different wines before heading back up to the night club where we got asked to pick which one we liked and between the six of us we were given 4 litres of wine with shot glasses and were pretty much told to do the shots of it.

That was about it for the weekend, we had breakfast the next morning (at about 12am) then got on the bus back to Lima, ready for volunteering again today.

I was back at San Antonio today and it was lots and lots of fun. A Lady there is in the process of adopting a little baby girl and it was this baby´s first birthday today. The Woman adopting her threw a big party for her and all the kids at the orphanage with lots of sweets, soft drinks, presents for all the kids. There was a dancing Snow White, and a pinata and it finally ended with KFC for lunch. It was a big treat for all the kids and I´m sure they will all be on big sugar high´s for the rest of the day!!!