Sandboarding and desert dune adventures in South America.
Chile is yet another sandboarding heaven in South America. In the northern part of the country, you can find the Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world; whereas the coastal regions near Iquique, Valparaíso and Viña del Mar offer spectacular views while dune surfing at high speed. Sandboarding at…
Like the rest of South America, sand surfing sports are also exploding in popularity in Argentina, a wonderful country which incredible coastal dunes bordering the Atlantic Ocean. In the region of Catamarca you can even slide on some of the tallest dunes of the entire world! Dunes of Tatòn in…
The Ica region of Peru has the most offering in terms of sandboarding opportunities, not to mention some of the straight-up best sand surfing destinations on the planet. Huacachina may be the most popular - perhaps overly saturated - spot, but the area surrounding Nazca is filled with even steeper…
Brazil is thought to be the place where modern sandboarding was invented, when impatient surfers near Florianopolis decided to stop waiting for big waves in the ocean and hit the dunes instead. There are many great sand surfing spots which are popular amongst Brazilian dune surfers. Brazilian Sandboarder Santa Catarina…
Huacachina is a tiny village and Oasis in southern Peru, an hour away from the Pacific coast. The town is basically a collection of resorts and restaurants around a blue-green laguna surrounded by huge sand dunes. An antique image of the town is featured on Peru´s 50 soles bill. Its interest…
In a country famous for its imposing mountains, archaeological sites and rainforests, it is possible to come across another element that makes Peru an even more unique destination: its sand dunes, which are among the tallest in the world! Today, the desert oasis of Huacachina is considered to be the…
Surfing on active volcanoes, officially volcano boarding or ash boarding, is an extreme sport similar to sandboarding but practiced on dunes made of hardened lava and volcanic ashes. There are currently only a handful of locations worldwide where this sport can be practiced, but the most popular destination is surely…
There is one place in the world that should never miss from a sandboarder's bucket list: Huacachina, a spectacular natural oasis in Peru surrounded by dunes as high as mountains, just 5 km from the town of Ica and about 300km south of the capital Lima. Ica and Huacachina have…