Hopping out of Nazca as quickly as we'd arrived, we took a random night in Huacachina, an oasis in the middle of the desert near to Ica, and on the way to Lima (it's the one on the back of the 50 soles note). I'd planned on going straight to Lima, but so glad I stopped here - it actually turned out to be one of my highlights. I honestly thought oasises (oases?) only existed in cartoons.
We arrived at 'Desert Nights' hostel, and immediately got into a sand buggy for a hilarious white knuckle rollercoaster ride through the desert. We then essentially threw ourselves down 200 foot high hills of sand on a plank of wood. I proclaimed at each drop (they were getting bigger and bigger) that 'I'd sit this one out' but found myself screaming down each one louder and louder. I'm still picking sand out of unmentionable crevices. SO. MUCH. FUN. We watched the most beautiful sunset and partied the night away in the dunes before heading on to our final destination, Lima - capital of Peru and capital of my big fat belly.
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