Today's plan takes us south of Lima about 5 hours to the region of Ica, and to the town of Huacachina. It's a fairly boring drive, but we do drive along the Pacific coast a bit before heading inland. We arrived after sunset so the kids couldn't see the surprise coming at them in the morning. Got settled into our room - the place we stay is called Las Bananas, and it's a hostel. So all us girls were in a 6 bed room and the boys were in a 4 bed room - bunk bed fun!! All the rooms surround an open-air courtyard, so we headed down for pizza dinner and chillaxed.
Sunday we awoke to our sand paradise. Literally Huahachina is a small town around a lagoon, which is in the middle of a desert. Sand for miles and miles. After breakfast, the kids headed out to venture around the lagoon, and do some shopping. After lunch, we just chillaxed in the hammocks. At 3pm, was the dune buggy adventure! It was a smaller buggy than normal - so was big enough just for our group. The driver, Josue, took them all up and down and around the dunes, and then picked a hill to go down. Grabbed the mini-surf boards and down the hill they went!!! It was a 3-parter and a few wiped out - a few went down the wrong hill.... but all had fun..... and had sand everywhere. The drivers brought them back and then most of them even kept going and went to climb the big dune to watch sunset. After showers, we had a big BBQ dinner, and some great Connect 4 competitions :)
Such a chill place - plus we got to see the sun!!!!
Life is good!!!
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