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Next town down the road was Ica. Sounded like some Inca city, but it was nothing like it at all.
This for me really seemed some kind of a shithole at the time.
We got ourselves some information about a hostel with a swimmingpool. We got ourselves a taxi (so cheap compared to back home)
and we found ourselves driving out of town, rounding some very big sanddunes.
But really no complaints, we found ourselves in a real oasis !
Man, this was great !
There was this big pool of water, like a small lake, surrounded by big sanddunes, like Sahara desert picture.
Around the lake, their were houses.
Our hostel was one of them.
It had a swimmingpool with water, taken straight from the oasis which is been emptied and refilled on a daily basis.
Now, we really found the most relaxing place to chill out.
It was a beautifull surrounding and I had never been in a real sanddune desert with a real oasis.
I felt I could stay there for weeks !
 We just chilled out; swim a bit in the pool to cool off, having some food and drinks, play some chess and ofcourse do some sandboarding !
That was really wicked !
Never done it before, nor have I done snowboarding.
And I've known it. Instead of going down diagonal, I went down like a rock, I tumbled and one side of my face was full of sand.
Even after two weeks I thought I felt some sand coming out of my ear ...
But this was not all this place had to offer.
As we sat down at our hostel we were spotted by this man.
He asked us if we wanted to go deep into the desert, into a place anybody hardly knows, to go looking for sharkteeth.
Yep this is no joke, he showed us a sharkteeth, of the size of the palm of a hand, appearantly the 2nd biggest in the world.
We decided to do it and there we went.
He kept talking this guy, Raaf got even fed up after 1,5 hours listening to him on the way over.
But I have to admit he had some interesting ideas and theories.
He stopped a few times along the route and showed us stuff to ecplain the changing of climates and so on.
 Finally, quite deep into the desert, about some 90km, we stopped.
Alright look for the teeth he said.
Well, anywhere you walked, you basically stepped on a bone, an old fossile.
I found it incredible !
I thought this was a paradise for archeologists.
I asked him why not more people came here and he replied that he wanted to keep it a bit secret as he was also afraid for other locals to take tourists over.
Well, fair enough ...
We found our sharkteeth, but not bigger than the size of the top of a thumb.
Than there was a sandstorm coming up.
He offered us to stay over for the night as his 4wd is occupied with gear to stay in the desert for about 2 weeks.
We politedly declined the offer, but before leaving he showed us the fossile of a whale.
A whale in the middle of the desert.
Man, it was huge and still well preserved !
But in the end it was really getting rough so we headed back to our oasis.
We spent another day over there, but like always when you find yourself the perfect place, we had to make another move ...
So off we went and this time with a pink playboy cadillac !
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