After hitting Lima for a couple of crazy crazy and rather hazy days of partying i headed south with a new gang.Ali a bloody good ozzy sheila who ive travelled with for the past few weeks and colin,a bloody good seppo bastard from san diego.
We grouped up and heade south to a desert oasis.It was a wild bus trip along the coastal sand dunes.We arrived at night so not too much could be seen but once the sun was up it was like been in a saharan movie.We were totally surrounded by massive sand dunes with a feral little green lake in the middle.The dunes were easily two hundred metre high so of course the first thing to do was go and hire some sandboards.
After a hellish calf burning climb to the top in hot desert heat i was ready.Colin hit it first, then me and everything was going pretty well.It was very similar to snowboarding but without the manouverability and a little less speed.Although it was still real fast.Anyway my first stack was on my ass and it was a horrifying feeling,like someone was trying to shovel a tonne of sand up my poor little sphinkter,it felt like some even went in,like been butt-fu#@ed by an elephant.Man i was sore and nearly shed a tear but didnt let that stop me and continued the run.
After that we hit another dune but that was it as the sun was way to hot to be climbing mountains of sand.After all to my dissapointment i was turning out to be quite a kook at sandboarding.
We then booked a dune buggy tour for the afternoon when the weather cooled down a bit.Been ozzy we rocked up 45 mins early to get some liquid confidence.The dune buggy was an 8 seater,huge roll cage and looked like a vehicle straght from the set of mad max.It also sounded like an absolute monster.
Out on the dunes it was insan,a full addrenlin rush as we hit steep peaks with speed and got thrown around like ragdole's.There were screams of fear and also excitement continously from all aboard.We would stop at the tops of dunes for some more sandboarding,these dunes were sooo sooo big and i was shitting myself.Most people took the smart and safe option of going down on their stomach,this was also much faster than standing up as you would just go in a straight line.
But us silly youngens opted for the stand-up.Over six or so more humungas dunes i got more sand packed up my coit,took a freat stack in front of everyone attempting a jump over another dune and sloghtly smashed my shoulder and wrist.Another injuy to the list.And after all these runs i was still a shit sandboarder ¨with a sore coit¨.
But overall it was so much fun and the buggy was a rush,going sideways up all sorts of angles on the side banks of dunes and up and down and up and down more crazy hills.
After that it was back to town for our free coctail and out to dinner.Ate good food and drank good beer at a restuarant wich then to our suprise brought out a bowm of marijuana for desert.It was a strange thing to look around a restuarant and see people smoking free pot for sweets.No cops,no laws,no worries.
