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And after:
After Chilca we got separated from Brandy and Ali because our tuk tuks took us to different points on the Panamericana, this was a shame because we never said goodbye. Alexa and I headed to Pisco which has been badly hit by lack of tourism because they had a huge earthquake last year that killed over 100 people and destroyed at lot of the town. We found a really nice hostel, Hostel San Isidral, where we were told they had had another earthquake 3 days before! Scary! It was a really interesting place with piles of rubble all over and reconstruction going on. Also there was a really big market and the people were really friendly.The hostel:
From Pisco we went to Tambo Colorado which is an Inca adobe brick site which was an administration center for traffic between the coast and Cusco. There were only 5 other tourists there which was good. It is the most well preserved adobe site in Peru:
The bath!:
The next day we took a tour to Isla Ballestas which is supposed to be the 'poorman's Galapagos.' We got a speed both over to the island and went round it for about 45mins. On the way we saw the Candelabro which is a huge drawing in the sand which can be seen from the sea. They don't know the reasoning behind it....it's quite old:
There was a shed load of birds on the islands, they used to export the bird poo for fertilizer and make a killing apparently. There are also shed loads of sealions:
There were pelicons, peguins, cormarants and Inca turn and others:
From Pisco we went to Tambo Colorado which is an Inca adobe brick site which was an administration center for traffic between the coast and Cusco. There were only 5 other tourists there which was good. It is the most well preserved adobe site in Peru:
The bath!:
The next day we took a tour to Isla Ballestas which is supposed to be the 'poorman's Galapagos.' We got a speed both over to the island and went round it for about 45mins. On the way we saw the Candelabro which is a huge drawing in the sand which can be seen from the sea. They don't know the reasoning behind it....it's quite old:There was a shed load of birds on the islands, they used to export the bird poo for fertilizer and make a killing apparently. There are also shed loads of sealions:
There were pelicons, peguins, cormarants and Inca turn and others:
Afterwards we went to the Reserva de Paracas which is a huge area of desert along the coast which has been made into a NP. It was beautiful:
In the evening we met 2 Belguim guys, Damian and Denis, who were in our dorm. Had a fun evening drinking huge quanities of Pisco sour - the Peruvian national drink.
Next day we left and went to Huacochina which is an oasis in the desert. There really isn't much there apart from a lagoon some palm trees and lots of party hostels. This was our hostel:
and the lagoon:
We went on a sandboarding and dune buggy tour in the afternoon which was sooo much fun. Our driver was completely crazy and we literally flew over the dunes.
You could sandboard properly, which we did, but it was much more fun and exhilerating to go on your front and bomb it down as demonstrated by Bone:
The biggest dune we boarded down:
In the evening we had the all you can drink and eat BBQ at the hostel which was messy. It was definitely a memerable evening including Bone's press ups, skinny dipping in the lagoon, stealing pedalos (we returned them), games of is it a cock or is it a ball etc etc... we met a couple of English guys, Dave and Will, below, who provided continuous entertainment! 
In the evening we met 2 Belguim guys, Damian and Denis, who were in our dorm. Had a fun evening drinking huge quanities of Pisco sour - the Peruvian national drink.
Next day we left and went to Huacochina which is an oasis in the desert. There really isn't much there apart from a lagoon some palm trees and lots of party hostels. This was our hostel:
and the lagoon:
We went on a sandboarding and dune buggy tour in the afternoon which was sooo much fun. Our driver was completely crazy and we literally flew over the dunes.
You could sandboard properly, which we did, but it was much more fun and exhilerating to go on your front and bomb it down as demonstrated by Bone:
The biggest dune we boarded down:
In the evening we had the all you can drink and eat BBQ at the hostel which was messy. It was definitely a memerable evening including Bone's press ups, skinny dipping in the lagoon, stealing pedalos (we returned them), games of is it a cock or is it a ball etc etc... we met a couple of English guys, Dave and Will, below, who provided continuous entertainment! 
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