evening of the day rafting, we went further. This time it fell on the desert village of Ica, on the way to Lima, from which we have a Saturday flight to Iquitos (420 PLN in two pages). We got there by bus, again 10h. This time, night skiing, Take the wanted in decent conditions so we purchased tickets at the best of the companies - Cruz del Sur (90PLN). Coach-class Argentine, very convenient, meal and drinks on board. When we arrived at the station a man accosted us, offering transport to the desert oasis near Ica, called Huacachina. Recently there has been heading, so we took advantage of their services. Transport taxi (10 minutes) was free of charge, provided that buys August night in a hostel, a taxi driver who sent the molar on the tourists. Hostel turned out to be very comfortable in the center of the oasis, 2 meters from the door to the room we have a superb swimming pool, so without hesitation agreed to see there be! Overnight 30 PLN. Huacachina lies at an altitude of 500 meters, at night we pulled from the Altiplano. To this, be immediately it got hot, the day is about 40 degrees, the sun burns like never and nowhere before. Huacachina is a hundred meter lake, palm trees around the lake, palm trees around the hotels, hostels and restaurants. Sand around them, a lot of sand. Desert giant sand dunes zolciutkiego perfect, high on the 200 to 300 meters, are the ideal place for the next extreme sport stupid - sandboardingu! In the hostel, we purchased for 45 PLN 2-hour trip to the desert. After the dunes, riding a specially designed vehicle - dune buggy. This buggy is a powerful engine, decent suspension with good shock absorbers, 9 seats and the metal cage around the tube to heap protect passengers against possible rolling! Driving a vehicle in the desert with no windows, without mask and without the door at a speed of 90 kmh is amazing fun! Jumping in the dunes, turning on an inclined at an angle of 60 degrees dune at almost maximum speed, racing with other buggy, again a large dose of adrenaline! The wind in your hair, sand in the teeth, a handful of heart. It was like riding a roller coaster without rails - the route of any in the boundless desert and the giant dunes. Fear and death in the eye they look. On one of the dunes, our driver (Ricardo), stopped over and whispered in English accent: "Sandboarding! With so many buggiego had fixed a few boards, like snowboarding, but thicker, with tie-on shoes. None of us had never ridden a board, but it was a troika with us Americans who, however, had this experience. Founded the board and tried to ride, did not work for them, seems that it is more difficult. OK, then we go on sitting and lying down! Ricardo has instructed us to sit down on a board and how to slow and control the arms. Well, go! It was the first training Gorka, rolling away after a while we went to the bigger, higher dunes. This time, sliding on his stomach, head down! Item, Ricardo wore us and go! I went as the third, seems to not understand something as Ricardo explained to us the ideal position ... soon began to wyplaszczac dune, and the board beneath me dynamically changed angle of inclination, head punched in the hope of, and even rode on a moment ... At the moment I otumanilo, after a few seconds I got up, blood flowed ... I checked in order to - inch ... However, the lower lip was dissected and heavily bleeding. Wipes, dressings, first aid kit, hydrogen peroxide, somehow alive, go without sewing (two days later - the swelling goes down already.) We go further, I am with a handkerchief to mouth, stop for the next dune, still higher! We all come here, I thanked him. Ricardo long tried to persuade me, as I saw the company at the bottom of the banana on the lips after the congress, put a handkerchief, picked up the board and again I left! Do not do to overcome fear! The drug has already defeated the height of the Way of Death, and beat it! (I fought in the jungle with spiders were still ...;) Later, two more dunes, getting high, came down at all. Adrenaline was buzzing, amazing emotion. That the sand we had everywhere except where I need not write, in addition, was a few abrasions on elbows nagdarstkach and, besides, was held without major losses. Someone can say that this game (and rafting for example) is a terrible Sellout and stupidity, but the emotions are so incredible, the adrenaline just blazes in the blood, you really should try something like this!
Flight to Iquitos is tomorrow, to Lima, we heard the same bad things, so I did not really wanted there to wait for the plane. We decided to relax and we stayed an extra day longer in the oasis and the pool. Burned out already on mahon, so I will be better able to stir in the local population. ;) Immediately we move to Lima, from there on Saturday morning we fly to Iquitos, where about 5 days we want to climb the mountain in the deep jungle. Therefore, another relationship will be the earliest of the 14th of March (maybe later). Hopefully, with too venomous snakes and spiders do not become us on the road ...
And, well, and took just the first Lari *, so I could begin the real ride ...
* Lari is a hallucinogen and strongly affects the psyche (depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts), anti-malarial drug. The above side effects are extremely frequent. However, statistics about malaria are much worse. In Iquitos, malaria occurs. Crop to face with their own psyche than to be helpless in combating the most dangerous beast of the world - malaria infected mosquito!
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