domingo, 19 de septiembre de 2010
The Desert of Ica and its beautiful dunes
The department of Ica is located on the south central Peruvian coast. He was considered the center where the important pre-Inca Nazca civilization (300 BC) and Paracas (700 BC).
Paracas Men Trephinations practiced in life, with obsidian knives, and reached a great development in textile art.
For its part, the Nazca culture noted for his admirable knowledge of hydraulic engineering, building aqueducts and underground channels reinforced with stone interior walls and ceilings huarango.
Ica is known as the region of the sand and sea, oases and valleys. In addition to pisco, wine and devotions, as the Lord of Luren or Yauca Sanctuary.
Ica offers one of the most beautiful desert landscapes of Peru competing with the height of the Sahara (Africa) and Arabic (Egypt), where we will see impressive dunes of different sizes in this tour enjoy landscapes and mirrors offered by scorching desert sands bordering El Oasis de Huacachina.
Ica dunes are the best place to practice sandbording. Ica is the birthplace of the tour and tours in practice Buggies and Sandboarding in Peru, which is why the rides in these powerful machines are one of the most popular tours on weekends, when many land travel to Lima to Ica find adventure and excitement in the tours, or sand buggies.
The city is well served by the Pan American Highway. Journey Lima - Ica (300 km) on the South Pan American Highway for a period of 4 h approx. car.
It also has a small airport, from where expeditions to largely leave the Nazca Lines. There is an air taxi service operating from Lima to Ica. Also flying over the Nazca Lines locally.
There are two airports in the department of Ica:
- Airfield near the Hotel Las Dunas, 5 km from Ica.
- Maria Reiche Neuman Aerodrome at km 447 of the Pan American Highway South (Nazca).
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