Huacachina and Paracas

My Sunday arrival to Ica was easy. I met Ivo on Plaza de Armas, we had a short term plan already, so we moved to nice oasis Huacachina in dunes. Plan was clear - relax during the day by the pool and go late afternoon for some fun on the dunes. We went on fancy buggy with 10 people altogether. The driver did some crazy shit on the dunes and I felt like on roller coaster. He did some fast curves and drops. I felt I've a smile on my face again like a small child. All the coldness was gone. We got some boards and it was time for sand boarding. I didn't got any bindings so I went the first ride face down laying on my board. I ended up down the dune full face of sand, but I made it. I tried couple more and then couple more in stand position. But the stand position wasn't easy to handle without bindings just bare foot. It was fine as long as the speed wasn't too fast. But you can't really turn thus brake and at some point you just fall. And the dunes were higher and higher. At some point I was left at the top without anybody to hand down my camera. So I surfed down, terribly falled and too much sand got into camera. I was fighting for hour or two with different technics to get the sand out and succeeded in the end. We did some more fun on the buggies and finished by sunset. It was perfect day for me as I was able to relax to let out some more coldness and also finally some activity and actually great fun.
 

On monday we moved to Pisco and Paracas national park for birds watching. We rented bikes and went on 30 km ride around the dunes and sea. We could barely see anything. It took more time than expected and we came back during the sunset with a company of annoying dogs. But it was quite active day in the end. We moved to Lima afterwards. Stayed overnight and next day early morning flew to Iquitos in the jungle called biggest city in the world not accessible by road.