Huacachina

Yo my home land... so we are here, landed and finally chillin, got rid of my concerns yesterday after stressing about which backpack and why my jeans were soaked in wine.

Lima was cool, but not so much, lots of cathedrals and crappy weather, thoroughly enjoyed my morning run (Nicks, Oscar’s double was running with me) and travelling on the local transport. The weather was overcast and “about to rain” but really doesn’t.  Baracca Backpackers treated us well (we thought Baracca was the name of the owner only to find it is actually a suburb... naive us!) and sent us on our way to Huacachina a little oasis in the middle of the desert. Spent last eve with my stunning wife surfing dunes and having a few drinks, woke up this morning apologising for having a few too many drinks (R 60 all you can drink and eat buffet for 1.5 hours) but ahoy... was informed by Clauds that this will happen again.

Sand boarding in Huacachina

Dune Buggy in Huacachina

 The folks here are very cool but not too much different to the indigenous back home (I need to state that in my writing I do not mean to be racist or demining in any way, just honest...) for instance we sit here on a top storey of the backpackers overlooking the most awesome dunes but if you focus on the detail there is a chair, toilet seat and a bed holding the roof down, not sure if this is meant to be or some drunked Saffa threw them out the window a few years back and just forgotten about (CJ my man you would be doing your nut over the detail).

We spent this morning slightly hungover with our new found friend Manolo he found us while hitching over to Huacachina and is slowly improving his English (our Spanish is less than shocking, but surviving, NO GARLIC has been an issue).

We checked out a few local wineries which we never expected and bought a bottle of Cisco 44% baby!, slightly tequila tasting but better! We requested a local meal and realised how much us tourists are really ripped off (only paid around R20 for soup and  a solid piece of chicken or meat compared to the usual R 70).

Wine farming in Huacachina

This is only our second stop but is seems that loo paper or towels do not come standard in these type of establishment so LU LU (Lucien VV) has become our new password to establishing session time. 

Ok well we have a 16h00 dune buggy organised and its time for a cerveza by the pool, will catch you later when the inspiration hits... swheet like a lemon !!

Chiramoya fruit – pic for Ed!