Back on dry land, my camera decided to die for the first time and I lost all my pictures since Cuenca (Ecuador), but luckily I am on a tour so there's fourteen other people with cameras taking the same pictures as I had.
On the way to Huacachina, we stopped off at a Pisco distillery for lunch, where we tasted all the different types ranging from a sweet sherry-like liquor, through to strong dry pisco. It was one of the few distilleries in the country that still uses traditional methods, including stomping barefoot on the grapes to extract the juice, and fermenting in huge clay pots.
For lunch, I had excellent Sea Bass ceviche, with hot chille and lime, and fantastic fresh lemonade - I gave the Pisco Sours a miss for a change!
Immediately after that, we drove to an oasis in the middle of the desert to go buggying and sandboarding. The buggies were 3-litre, ten seaters - fairly rapid when they got going, and I was sat front and centre - it felt like a sandblaster in your face. Great fun though.
For the sandboarding we were told to slide down on our fronts, faces just inches from the sane. A couple of people had a go standing up but the boards weren't really good enough so they never got anywhere fast.
After a quick shower and swim we were back on the bus to Nazca, where we arrived after dark. We went to a local planetarium, where we were told about all the various theories behind the Nazca lines, as well as looking through a telescope at Saturn and the moon - amazing. We could actually clearly make out the rings on Saturn, and the moon was visible in incredible detail; you could see every crater and shadow.
Dinner was a simple yet satisfying meal of Chicken Milanese Cordon Bleu (Chicken breast, stuffed with ham and cheese, in breadcrumbs), before I went out for a few drinks with Vikki, Julia and Kerry.
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