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Would you like to pet my monkey?

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Gina. Ica, Peru 

Huacachina quickly lost its charm. It´s really not its fault…. The combination of getting used to traveling, getting sick, and our hotel literally having about 20 French Canadians staying there (everyone but us) was just too much for us. Between the cute little pet monkey, the parrots, swimming pool, and the awesome hang out backyard of the hostel it would have been a nice place to relax for a while. But we felt lonely and a little claustrophobic since Huacachina is literally surrounded by towering sand dunes. You feel like you´re at the bottom of a giant bowl.

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Desert Oasis–A French (Canadian) Invasion

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Gina. Huacachina, Peru

Huacachina is beautiful. It´s an incredibly small little resort type town that is literally a desert oasis. There are towering sandunes all around the little green lake that the handful of restaurants, hotels, and dune buggy rental places surround. Huacachina is just outside of Ica, which is South of Lima. It tooks us about 5 hours by bus to get here. The bus was more comfortable than a plane… it was also pretty expensive. We chose Cruz del Sur mostly because there is no central bus station in Lima, so in order to compare bus prices we would have had to take a taxi into bad areas of town, jumping from company to company before settling on a ticket. In retrospect, we should have asked our very nice taxi driver Juan since he was usually outside of our hostel and was very friendly. But oh well. It was 55 soles a piece, which is roughly $20. So not so bad for getting out of Lima–two days there was definitely enough.

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