The next morning we joined up with two French to get back to the Pan Americana where we got into a bus that took us to Ica within an hour. There unfortunately I had to find out that there are no buses leaving in the morning to Arequipa, our next destination. For that reason we bought tickets for the same day in the night. We checked into a very cheap place just to drop of the bags. We walked a little bit in town and then went out to the Laguna de Huacachina, a little oasis in the desert but very close to town. It was Sunday and full of locals and tourists. Here, unlike in other parts of the Atacama you really have lots of sand and dunes like you would picture it from the Sahara. We decided to try Sand Boarding. We only managed to go down a dune a couple of times because we rented just for one hour but it was still a lot of fun, going down at least, coming up was another story. Full of sand we got back to our room, cleaned of a little and after a stop in a pizza place and an internet café we headed for the buss station.