Dune Buggy Adventure, Huacachina, Peru - June 2011

We took an overnight bus from the border town of Tacna to Huacachina and arrived in the early hours of the morning at the oasis town. The town was surrounded by amazing sand dunes, which we were to later explore by buggy and sandboard.

The famous land mark of Tacna. A pleasant border town in Peru.

Huacachina in the early morning light.

The beautiful calm oasis.



Some of the friends who we went sandboarding/buggy adventuring with.
L-R Joe (US), Julia (UK/France/various) and Anna (UK/France/Various).



Our clever driver, Jesus. We felt safe in his hands. He built the buggy from scratch.

Richard in his safety specs. Believe me, you needed them to protect your eyes from the wind of the buggy ride and the sand.

On your marks, get set...

Note, Richard's proper snowboard and my plank of wood. I went down the fun way - on my tummy. Well, I only went down the first slope as the others were all too steep and the buggy ride down was sooooo exciting. Like a roller coaster without the rails.

...GO,GO,GO!

More jumping escapades. This time Richard and Joe.

Some of the other friends we made on the sandboarding trip.
L-R Martin (English, living in Oz), Alyssa (USA), me, Tom (English), Johnny (English) and Richard. We had a great night of salsa with them. Our other friends had gone to camp in the desert overnight.

A salsa teacher came out with us - not sure what good it did!