PERU. Lima to Huacachina

Not quite Skiing but still.....................................

First stop in Peru was Pedro´s Family backpackers in Lima, an awesome hostel and after findign the supermarket for breakfast Pedro gave a 4 of us a crash course in Spanish.
Starting off with numbers and whats your name we moved onto the trickier stuff like when does the bus leave and ¿why is the beer so expensive? How to paint a lampost Peruvian Style!

Armed with the essentials our tri-nation group of travellers headed into central Lima in search of the ancient catacombs at The San Francisco Church. After a tour of the main church we headed underground into the main tombs, to be greated with open grave after open grave of bones. All laid out next to each other. Skulls were used to decorate the walls as well as in the patterns created by leg and arm bones. A particularly bizare experience to be wondering around the tombs of over 200 people but an interesting one none theless.

The plan for day 3 was to head down to the coast at Miraflores, however on arrival at the coast the beach was at the base off a large cliff and didnt look as appealing as first anticipated so it was back to the hostel to catch a bus south with the Germans, Markus & Matius and Emily the ozzi to Ica, followed by a taxi to Huacachina.

Sat in the taxi driving throught the desert we were all wondering how much further it was going to be we came over a sand dune to see a small town built around a natural oasis.

Dune Buggys were deffinately in order so the 4 of us piled into the back of a ¿buggy? mainly consisting of an engine and 5 seats attached to some wheels an flew off into the desert for a spot of sand boarding before heading to the highest dune to watch the Sunset.

Back in town it was happy hour so it would have been rude not to try the local beveridge, "Pisco Sours" made from Pisco brandy, lime sugar and whisked egg white. At a first glance it may not seem to appealing but the slide down very easily!!!