Monday, November 23, 2009

Sandboarding and Pisco drinking

From Nazca, we went directly to Huacachina (represented on the 50 soles note)- Huacachina is an oasis in the middle of the desert where the main activity is sandboarding. It was pretty cool..especially going down lying on the board (head first). The craziest part was not the sandboarding but the buggy. To go up the dunes, the best way is to use a buggy. We didn t expect that it would be so crazy or that our driver would be so fearless. Let s compare the feeling with a roller coaster but a roller coaster tour which lasts much longer than 90 seconds.
Today we visited (in the morning!)2 pisco wineries. After the first visit, we felt a bit tipsy..so we arrived at the 2nd one in great mood. A little peruvian guy gave us a quick tour of the "Museum"..It was not a museum just a room full of mess: Imagine some old pisco ceramics mixed with some old phones, stuffed crocodile, stuffed seal and some cables, plastic bottles. I would call it a "Joyeux Bordel". Our good mood reached its top when the guide showed Peter how to drink the liquor shot and by doing so spilt the drink on his tshirt (without noticing).

5 comments:

  1. Hey crazy kids, my god you have done so much since i read this last time, so much so i haven't even read it all yet, pics look great though, you are all so tan and smiley! i hope you are enjoying every minute, the time is flying so fast, can't believe it. I will take some time tomorrow to give ALL posts a read, not just the alcohol titled one, hmmmm i do like pisco, so refreshing, as memory serves. SO where are you now that is wet and cold - it sounds oddly familiar - did u sneek back to Ireland without telling us. Its been fricking freezing here recently, and wet AND cold, there has even been crazy bad floods all over the country since last week, Dublin is about the only place that hasn't suffered too bad! Anyway, never worry about all that - enjoy every second! Seeya soon!

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  2. All those crazy things you do! Cooolio. If I correctly matched the photo with your story about 'museum' it is really a Joyeux Bordel :) You look more and more tanned and happy, enjoying life! DONT COME BACK TO DUBLIN. It will be wet and cold all the time :)

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