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After our bus ride to Ica we arrived about 8:30pm and didn't know which direction to walk in! Everywhere else we had gotten off buses there were millions of taxis there to take us wherever we wanted to go… we got off at a hotel and there was nothing around and we didn't even know which direction to walk in to get to the hotel which we had booked! A chick out the front asked us where we were going and luckily she had some directions and was going to the same place as us! So we walked the few hundred metres there and checked in. woohoo all settled, the room was awesome (two beds pushed together of course like always but a foam thing over the top so you couldn't feel the join. Huge bathroom and… just a good room compared to Nirvana! (see previous blog).
So we were hungry and went into the restaurant in the hotel and asked if they had food. Yep they had food. Do they have a menu? No, no menu… what would we like? We're like ummmm how do we know what to order! The waiter didn't speak English which was helpful but we had seen a pizza oven out the front and thought… ok they have pizza at least! So we ordered a vegetarian pizza, he asked - do we want salami, ham? We asked for a vegetarian pizza with maybe a little bit of salami. Hilariously when our pizza came out about 45 minutes later we had a pizza with JUST salami and ham!!! So much for our vegetarian pizza… not a vegetable in sight! Needless to say we didn't order dinner from there after that!
The next day we went to Hacuchina where we saw a beautiful oasis in the middle of dunes (the dunes were a sort of dessert rather than next to the beach like we are used to seeing it in Aus). We went dune buggying and sand boarding in the afternoon to be able to watch the sunset and because its so hot there is little else you can do during the day! The dune buggying was awesome - there was about 8 or so of us in the buggy and we went up and down in the buggy it was amazing… really scary - we had seatbelts and the buggy had an iron cage on in case we rolled (EEK!) but it was amazing fun. We would get driven to the top of amazing dunes, and then we would sand board down them (we had snowboards and boots but its harder as the sand is softer), and the buggy would pick us up at the bottom and drive us to another dune! It was amazing fun. Scary as all hell though. The dunes were like black runs in snowboarding terms… great experience though, it was amazing.
The next day we spent hanging by the pool and checking out the town and just cruising around taking in the place. I taught Matt a few card games, that was it for that day! Then the next day we cruised back to Lima - thank god I had booked us a nice hotel for the last night before we flew to mexico - where we had NICE Pisco sours! (traditional drink they have there made with Pisco and egg whites which we had only had REALLY sour awful ones). Turns out if you make them right they taste amazing!
After the first champagne (we went all out and Matt bought me an entire bottle!) I had had in weeks, in a bath nonetheless!!! We went to sleep for our last night in Lima… Thank god - I was so sick of Lima by the time we left there… too much time in a crappy city - not helped by matt being sick and us stuck in Nirvana! We bought some great stuff on the last day though included alpaca rugs which are really fluffy its crazy.
Goodbye Lima - I liked Peru but hope never to have to spend more time in Lima ever!
xo
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