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Dune Buggy Oasis and Lima (click on picture for more)
One of the last, unexpected, highlights of the trip was a desert oasis and a dune buggy trip. This was an unplanned stop on the trip but because of scheduling changes turned into a highlight. We traveled by bus, mostly near the coast, from Arequipa to Lima. A large portion of this coast was sand and sand dunes. We stopped and spent the night at this desert oasis/resort and it was just exactly everything you picture when you think of a desert oasis. While we were eating, a guide stopped by and talked us in to taking a dune buggy trip in his huge (12 person) dune buggy. The trip was fantastic... punctuated by several long sand boarding trips down the dunes! The dune buggy trip was like a roller coaster ride... the driver was very friendly... and we ended up watching the sun set from the top of the dune before a wild trip back to the resort... magnifico! From the resort we took a bus to Nasca to see the Nasca lines. This included a small plane fly over of these football sized figures created by incans 500 years ago... the mystery is why they were created when the only way to see them is from an airplane! From there all 10 of us crowded into a small mini van and drove 6 hours to Lima where we visited the national musem and then flew home.
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