Coast of Peru 🇵🇪

Pick up is at 05.15am today as I settle in for a full day on the bus.  We are heading 13 hours up the coast to Huacachina.  If we ignore my excitement at getting to watch Top Gun, the scenery was amazing.   It was more interesting than I was expecting, once out of Arequipa we hit the coast and the beaches were lovely and totally deserted.  The road wound through rocky parts and sand stones but we kept the sea for about two thirds of the trip.  We stopped for lunch at a small fishing village called Chala which was really quaint and then headed north for 3 hours to Nazca.

We stopped briefly to climb a tower that gives a birds eye view of 2 of the designs.  The Nazca lines were created 1900 years ago and surprisingly only discovered 100 years ago. They are still shrouded in mystery but are thought to have been gifts or prayers to the gods for water in this dry land.

We eventually arrive at Huacachina after sunset and I don’t feel too bad after such a long bus trip.  Nicole is already here so we meet for a bite to eat and a cheeky beer.