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Huacachina, Nazca and the Drive to Cusco

August 27, 2018 – August 29, 2018

Huacachina is a tiny, oasis resort town surrounded by huge sand dunes.  It was once the playground for elite Peruvians, but is now frequented more by tourists who rent snowboards or skis to first climb up, then swoosh their way down the sand dunes.  We stopped in town for some lunch and watched boarders climb the enormous sand dunes in the hot midday sun, we didn’t see many coming back down though; maybe they were reluctant to climb back up again. After lunch we decided to move on.

The lagoon in the middle of town.

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