Huacachina

Huacachina should be paradise, but to be honest  it´s really not. Firstly, the lagoon is more like a pond, I think the colour has definately enhanced in all the photos, it is actuiallywuite like Hampstead ponds- but less clean. It is beautiful here however, the sand dunes go on forever  like in Sex and the City 2, and all the shops and restaurants, which are all may I add exstortionately expensive, face in to the "lagoon".

Yesterday, we arrived around lunch time and were told nearly every hostel in town was booked up except the one we end up staying in, where buggy/ sandboarding tours are cumpulsory and included  in the price.
Around 5 we went sand boarding and left  in this crazy looking buggy. At several points  in the trip we thought we were actually going to die. The man who was driving was a complete nutter... not only was he elderly but he nearly crashed the buggy and almost ran over some children on the way to the dunes. He also liked to drive on the wrong side of the road.

He would drive full speed over the top of dunes and then down the bottom accelerating...

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But the sandboarding was really fun, especially with the sun setting over the dunes. Tilly tried to stand up but fell over lots of times, perhaps slightly too overexpectant of her sandboarding skills... on the otherhand, I didn´t realise you had to put your feet down to brake, so went flying down soo fast it was crazy.