HUANCACHINA

Huancachina, a true desert oasis

WHERE: HUACACHINA

WHERE (less detailed): south Peru

a view from lower down

WEATHER IS: it can be pretty cool in the pool but otherwise it's pretty toasty.
PEOPLE ARE: the Israeili guy in our hostel who started shouting at the kitchen staff because his egg took a while to arrive was extremely annoying. He was also the loudest exhailer of cigarette smoke in the world which infuriated paul. The club promoter who stood outside his empty venue repeatedly promising the "most happening club in Peru" deserves points for trying.

the girls enjoy the surroundings

FOOD IS: average. Rhaani managed to find salad which was a step up. We discovered that the list of ingredients on menus are more a guide than a promise as Rhaani's chicken with asparagus featured ham rather than asparagus while her chicken salad came sans chicken
A MEAL COSTS: £5 a head
A BEER COSTS: £1 for a Heineken bottle

Paul not so much so

HIGHTLIGHTS/LOWLIGHTS: without doubt the dune-buggy desert ride. Felt just like a roller-coaster ride but with a very real chance of rolling over...the girls have the real fun as they body board down the 70 degree slopes across te desert while Paul slowly saloms his way down standing on his board ....

Rhaani shows the fastest way to get to the bottom

... the view from the sand dunes behind the hostel that served as our morning stroll ... one morning Rhaani passes a drunk Englishman lying halfway up begging to be dragged to the top and claiming to have been stuck their for hours (Rhaani left him to die)... Meeting a couple we swore looked familiar and realising we spoke to them for 10mins in Nepal up a mountain...

Alton Towers could do with one of these

UP NEXT: LIMA, which according to LonelyPlanet a bit underwhelming

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