Tuesday was an understandably late start. We had breakfast, and nothing to do until our late afternoon tour, we decided to head down to the Plaza del Armas to wander around for a bit. We did some shopping and ended up at Roky’s (a sit-down chicken restaurant) for lunch. I’m not too sure if they were large chickens, or if the ones similar restaurants back home serve are small, but we had a LOT of food. We people watched at the plaza for a bit, only saw a couple tourists, which was quite strange compared to all the tourists we saw in Cusco and other places. After a bit of time back at the hotel, we got picked up and headed to Huacachina for our dune buggying and sandboarding.
The dune buggy was fast and fun, and the dunes looked incredible.
After tooling around the dunes, and getting blasted with sand, we stopped for our sandboarding. There were three dunes to go down, each getting bigger, so you could improve from one run to the other.Nathan, Tyson, Dave, and Mike all got “professional” boards, which are essentially regular snowboards without edges.
Rox and I went on the “tourist” boards which you sled down on your stomach, essentially like skeleton.
It was so much fun, and when you wax the board (with an unlit candle) you can get some pretty good speed. After that we cruised along in the dune buggy for a bit more, then stopped at a higher elevation one to watch the sun set. Rox took the time to make a “sand angel.”
After our excursion our tour took us back to the hotel, where we showered, in a vain attempt to get all the sand off of us, before cabbing back to Huacachina for dinner. We had some pizza in a little bar, but for it being a party town, the place was quite dead. We headed back to our hotel and had a couple drinks before heading off to bed.
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