Entries from 'desert'

Day 268

Huacachina, the only desert oasis in South America! We arrive today and I went out on a sandboard/dune buggy tour. The dune buggy ride was more like a rollercoaster as the dune buggy felt as if it were free falling down the near vertical sand dunes and ready to roll over at multiple turns. The…

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Day 250

Ugh, So last night we boarded our 10pm sleeper bus in Cuenca intending to arrive in Chiclayo Peru at 9am the next morning. We were about 3 hours in and 10km from the border when our bus ‘broke down’. After waiting for an hour on the hot stuffy bus at 1.30am the driver flagged another…

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