An curved arrow pointing right. For under $30 per person you can slide down epic sand dunes in Huacachina, Peru. Story and editing by Jeremy Dreyfuss Follow INSIDER Travel on Facebook Follow ...

Katy Esquivel decided to let me drive her beautiful car and I got it stuck in the sand dunes of Huacachina. Hope she will one day forgive me. Hope you enjoyed Peru!

The sand dunes near Huacachina, Peru. Angela Ponce for The New York Times Paracas National Reserve, south of Lima. The word paracas means “rain of sand” in Quechua, Peru’s most widely spoken ...

Experience the thrill of sandboarding on the Huacachina dunes or immerse yourself in enigmatic pre-Incan cultural heritage at ...

This story appears in the November 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. I got my first lesson in the physics of sand dunes in 1998 on an expedition into the Sahara. In order to take aerial ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a 5,000-year-old ceremonial temple and human skeletal remains beneath a sand dune in the Zaña district of northwestern Peru. The site is part of the Los ...

this issue). Sand deposition, accretion, and erosion within the coastal environment result in the development of a variety of dune morphologies; however, a general classification into primary and ...

Sand grains that are very round and dry (moisture on the dune's surface can cause sand to clump together, inhibiting avalanching) Grains on the dune's surface that are "well sorted," meaning they ...

We clearly highlight car and van hire options in Huacachina that have free cancellation. So you can bag the best deal with total flexibility to change your plans if you need to. Want to hire a car for ...