Feb. 11 -- Amid a vast desert, hidden among the largest sand dunes in Peru, lies the only natural desert oasis in South America. Huacachina, one of Peru's most prominent tourist spots, ...

Huacachina is Peru’s desert playground—an oasis where you can sandboard at sunset, and roar through dunes in a buggy.

You would be forgiven for thinking this was some kind of mirage, but the amazing oasis town in the middle of one of the driest places on Earth is actually very real. The town is called Huacachina ...

Why You Need to Visit Peru - 0:13-1:17 - Huacachina, a unique oasis in the desert - 1:18-1:59 - Explore the Amazon Rainforest - 2:00-2:49 - The historic city of Cusco - 2:50-3:42 - The iconic Machu Pi ...

You would be forgiven for thinking this was some kind of mirage, but the amazing oasis town in the middle of one of the driest places on Earth is actually very real. The town is called Huacachina and ...

The coastal desert of Peru, on the other hand, is populated by oases full of workaday Peruvians - and it more or less has been this way for the past 6,000 years. Advertisement Article continues ...

"MY husband and I recently returned from a trip to Peru, where we visited the Nasca lines -- mysterious ground art in the coastal desert.

David Beresford-Jones of the University of Cambridge and Alex Chepstow-Lusty of the French Institute for Andean Studies in Lima, Peru, analysed 1.5-metre-deep profiles of pollen distribution in ...