January 15

Alarm clock set up early as we had a busy day!
We went on a little boat expedition to the Ballestas Islands, the Peruvian Galapagos islands! We saw sea-lions, dolphins, penguins, and lots a lots of birds!!! We also saw some lines drawn in the sand, representing something like a candeler. Nobody knows exactly why, when, and by whom it was made! It is like the Nazca lines, which are in tomorrow's plan. The whole boat ride was really nice!

We then took a bus and went to a Pisco distillery, had a tour of the place, and a free degustation of many different kind of the drink! Shots before lunch under a burning sun is not necessarily a great idea! :-)

We hopped back in the bus and went to the oasis of Huacachina, in the middle of the desert! We then took buggies and went faaaaaaast in the dunes!!! It was amaizing! The driver said he had no idea at what speed we were driving, but it was definitely more than 110km/h in the slopes down the hill! At one point, we even flew!! We also did sandboarding, starting lying down on our tummies, head first, in the huge slopes, and then trying it standing up! It was a lot of fun!!!
We then "buggied" back to the oasis, had lunch, Pisco and hopped in the swimming pool in the middle of the dunes!
That was a great start of the day!
BUT then, on our 3hour bus drive to Nazca, we ad a little car accident! There were huge rocks in the middle of the road and we hit one! We were lucky, we did not get hurt nor got off the road! We "only" blew a tyre and broke some parts of the motor. A car before us had made a few flips and a truck and another car blew their tyre too.
After an hour and a half of waiting in the desert, another bus came and brought us to the town of Nazca, and then to our hotel where a wedding was taking place!

What a day!