I apologize again for not posting a blog article this day. Again, we stayed at a place without internet connection. But from the beginning:
As we went out the evening before, we got up a little later and had a relaxed breakfast. It was our last time together as one left our road trip team to stay in Lima. After saying goodbye, the other Argentinian and I continued traveling south towards the Chilean border.
On the way, we stopped at the laguna Huacachina in Ica. From what we had seen in the internet we expected a picturesque oasis in the middle of the desert far from civilization. Unfortunately it wass entirely circled by touristic edification. Anyway it was a nice place with impressive dunes.
We continued driving and I noticed again how wrong my image of the Peruvian landscape was. But also we saw how beautiful a desert landscape can be.
The idea was to stop at a gas station and to sleep in the car. When the sun set, we decided to continue driving a little bit to make up for a bit of the time we had lost by leaving late, by visiting the laguna and because my credit card wouldn’t work and we had to run from one ATM to the other, to banks until we finally decided to exchange some of my emergency USD.
Unfortunately for the next 1.5h after deciding this, there was nothing but stones and sand until we finally found a gas station and stopped for the day.