Peru

Huacachina

Huacachina is a palm-fringed lagoon set among the dunes of Peru’s coastal desert, about five kilometres from the city of Ica. The contrast is immediate: a green waterline and shade trees sit below immense sand slopes, while the regional capital is a short drive away. Visitors come for the landscape, boat or pedal-boat rides, and excursions into the dunes, but the oasis is not merely a backdrop for adventure sports. It is a protected regional…...