Monday 11 October 2010

2nd Sept Nazca to Pisco - fun in the sand

Today we travelled to Pisco.  However this was not just a road trip day.
We stopped at an Oasis.  Yes quite literally a water hole in the middle of sand dunes.  We jumed a dune buggy and all hell broke loose.  The driver raced over huge drops and we screamed for our lives.  The sand dunes were huge (Formby doesnt touch these things!!).  We then jumped off the buggy and onto some boards and slid head first down the sand dunes.  What an adrenaline rush!!!  Steve, Andrea, Lucy and I were all buzzing by the time we came down from the dunes for a spot of lunch.
We headed to Pisco after lunch (still pumped with adrenaline), and the wineyards where they showed us how they made Pisco (and yes there was samples consumed).
Pisco was our overnight stay and we could see the devastation of the 2007 earthquake, which was still apparent in the city.  They have a lot of social problems with crime and such due to the poverty created by the earthquake, so we stayed around the hotel for most of the evening.

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  1. I know the date is wrong before anyone says anything!!

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